Fashion, Faith, Fantasy and New Physics of the Universe

Can we talk about fashion, faith or imagination in fundamental science?
The Universe is not interesting for human fashion. Science cannot be interpreted as faith, because scientific postulates are constantly subjected to strict experimental verification and discarded as soon as the dogma begins to conflict with objective reality. And fantasy generally neglects both facts and logic. Nevertheless, the great Roger Penrose does not want to completely reject these phenomena, because scientific fashion can turn out to be an engine of progress, faith appears when the theory is confirmed by real experiments, and without a flight of imagination not to comprehend all the oddities of our Universe.
In the chapter Fashion you will learn about the theory of strings - the most fashionable theory of recent decades. Vera is devoted to dogma on which quantum mechanics stand. And the “fantasy” concerns no less - theories of the origin of the universe known to us