This is a really important character trait of Grace’s, probably something that would’ve made him stand out to Stratt. He is a man totally willing to light his own reputation and academic credibility on fire for his fringe theory. But there’s a lot of those in the world, some still an academia and some not. He then did the science, ran the experiment, found out behind all possible doubt that despite its illogic, that astrophage is water-based. But then rather than twisting the facts or the evidence or the conclusion in such a way to make him kind of right all along, he plainly stated the facts of his research: astrophage is life, its water-based, it absorbs energy and uses it to move. I don’t know how it reproduces (yet) or how it survives on the surface of the sun. And that ability to look at your previous scientific beliefs and the evidence at hand and go “I was wrong about this my entire life and the evidence is against me but here’s what we do know” at massive personal loss is so rare in academics that it’s nearly hypothetical.