Most scientific endeavors start with somebody noticing something wierd and saying Huh . That ' s wierd . I wonder why that happened that way . Now I ' m curious about it . If I look for some more of thisdo that again , I wonder what else I can find out about it . Paleontology started when people started finding these wierd rocks that we figured were bones of creatures that may have lived millions of years ago . This seems to have directly contradicted the biblical belief of the time about genesis and when the Christian God created our world . This was sort of the beginning of our realization that there ' s more to this than what everyone was told , and we kind of wanted to find out more . Science is powered by curiosity and people can be curious about the damnedest of thing , and really , no knowledge is ever wasted .