The ability to generate hypotheses and test them was for a long time looked down on. Give me facts, was the thinking. But facts are only valuable if they can be put in some kind of context. The measurement was not well done, or the basic hypothesis is false. The only way to make progress is to falsify, making hypotheses that can be proven false.
Rodolfo Llinas (in an interview with Kay McGowan in DISCOVER magazine)






