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In certain fields. For the past hundred years in physics, it's been the other way around. Which is completely awesome and devastatingly intimidating for someone entering the field of theoretical physics, like myself. 20th century physicists basically built the entire standard model of physics on sheets of paper. Experimentalists spent an entire century in the footsteps of theory, setting up billion dollar experiments only to say "fuck, they were right again".
On the other hand, other fields of science, especially biology right now, is completely the opposite. They are mind boggled by all the shit that a single cell can do, and they've barely scratched the surface of the knowledge there is to attain. They can watch all sorts of things happen but they don't know why they do yet.