[utensil4778]

Experimentation brings knowledge, not understanding.

Franklin did not understand electricity, but merely observed it.

It wasn't until we discovered the electron proper and Maxwell did his work that we-- anyone-- understood electricity.

Understanding comes from scientific and academic rigor after the discovery.

[neuralRiot]

> It wasn't until we discovered the electron proper

I’d even say that we don’t yet fully understand the electron!

[OJFord]

Or just separately from, like Higgs understanding and theorising a boson years before it was actually 'discovered'/detected experimentally.