I'm not saying that it is - but research for its own sake is worthwhile, even if you don't know beforehand how earthshaking the results will be. Sure, sometime

I'm not saying that it is - but research for its own sake is worthwhile, even if you don't know beforehand how earthshaking the results will be. Sure, sometimes you swing and you miss, but if that makes you too scared to swing at all then you're never going to hit anything.