&gt; This is what the real science is. Observation and only observation. Reasoning is secondary and unimportant.<p>&quot;Observation and only observation&quot; is how you build an inchoate collection of useless factoids, it&#x27;s not how you do science.<p>Observations are a very important part of the scientific method and you have to be either rooted or anchored in it, but it&#x27;s only one part of science, and it&#x27;s by no means the most important product of it. Observations are seeds (from which patterns are recognised and hypotheses formed) and filters (data gathered to test the predictive power of hypotheses).