Religious literature urge to " learn what you do not know", Discover Knowledge, explore wonders of world, travel in search of truth ( gain knowledge), etc.
Yes He is. He said at Hosea 4:6 that My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Knowledge always point us to God. 1 Corinthians 8 says Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
It all depends on the conception that you have, for example, I believe that the "God ", in which many believe, simply gave orders to be able to develop as people, and we alienated, for a long time, we follow those "laws "; But fortunately, we manage to develop as beings with a real "free will "
Of course, God loves scientists and scientists, the heirs of the prophets, and God loves science and knowledge because it is in the service of humanity