单选题 The author discusses Goethe's theories in the second paragraph primarily to do which of the following?

• (A) suggest that the purpose of science is not simply to make discoveries but to influence the way humans regard the world
• (B) illustrate the dangers of rejecting a mechanistic view of the world
• (C) investigate the predictive efficacy of a scientific methodology that eschews certain types of experiments
• (D) provide an argument for why scientists should not be amateurs
• (E) demonstrate how easily a variation in scientific methodology can arouse controversy among scientists