[diegs]

IANAPOSE (I am not a philosophy of science expert) but I think a happy medium is to observe, collect data, and look for things that are interesting, and then perform properly formulate experiments to test those hypotheses.

I think that focusing on either side alone can lead to biases and problematic science, and focusing on both is actually the most "fun"

[sitkack]

Both center around observation for all definitions of the word. Before we had microscopes or MRI machines, we still have those but we now have powerful statistical machines called ML models. In all cases though, we need perceive the world.

You can't see what do you don't look for.