【单选题】

It can be inferred from the passage that Goethe's scientific contemporaries made which of the following assumptions
A．(A) The most accurate view of the universe is that of the mechanistic model.

B．(B) Science should avail itself of all possible methods of discerning the truth.
C．(C) The tangible results of scientific inquiry are more important than its philosophical assumptions.
D．(D) Poetic intensity is relatively unimportant in the expression of a scientific theory.
E．(E) Scientific theories should go far beyond the "human scale", where possible.