Thousands of hours of thinking and no experiment sounds dangerously close to philosophy :)
I said nothing about the absence of experiment.
Ideally you want a mix of careful reflection, scholarship, discussing it with others and empirical investigation.
Thousands of hours of thinking and no experiment sounds dangerously close to philosophy :)
I said nothing about the absence of experiment.
Ideally you want a mix of careful reflection, scholarship, discussing it with others and empirical investigation.