This text explores the relationship between lawfulness and contingency in the development of science, particularly from the early modern era to the present. The author critiques the scientific tendency to focus exclusively on commonalities and general laws while dismissing individual differences as mere contingency, unsuitable for rigorous study. This focus on archetypes and statistical averaging is presented as a relic of mythical thinking, which persisted even in classical Greek philosophy through Plato’s Ideas and Aristotle’s Forms. The central problem addressed is the validity of a scientific approach that prioritizes the typical and average over the unique. The author questions how science can be transformed to strictly and accurately comprehend individual phenomena without relegating them to the realm of the marginal or illusory. Ultimately, the text calls for a fundamental reassessment of scientific principles to account for the reality of the unique, moving beyond the traditional exclusion of the non-universal.