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Frank,
I can understand what you are saying, yet I do feel science is far more motivated by faith, than greed.
There is the physics of politics, where belief systems go through a growth phase of increasing credibility, as they prove ever more successful at beating whatever opposition arises, until it becomes more a function of institutional management, than pursuit of vision and corruption sets in. Depending on their social and civil functions, different institutions can survive for much longer than others. So then there is the politics of physics.
Sciences cannot live in the corrupted phase for nearly as long as say, religious or political institutions. I think historians will look back on this and see the discovery of the Higgs as the apex of the current age, because once the glow of this success wears off and scientists start looking for new avenues to explore, they will not have the resources to push the current view much further, so there will be, gradually at first, a tendency to give more attention to the many issues percolating under the surface. Without that grand unifying effort to keep everyone pointed in one direction, first the fringes will raise their profiles a little further, then the debates within the ivory towers will start to grow louder. Then it will really start to come out in the open that many assumptions are not as solid as they have been presented to be.