Aaron Swartz who downloaded so many articles online was known criminal. No one knows if he knew that he was doing a crime. He never told anyone why he downloaded them but he opened door for limitless online knowledge.
So much information has been discovered through research. But there is still so much information that is waiting to be discovered. Some of them are in progress while others are leaving behind because of some reason such as funding. Researchers rely on funding and disciplines to be effective professionals. Many researches don’t get enough funds for research because the topic probably doesn’t seem interesting to the funder. Science is not the only place; research can be in any field. It can be in the economics, literature, history, mathematics fields etc.