[donw]

I recall a video where a biologist talked about how students from prestigious universities had become completely incapable of doing science.

He would take them in the field, and they were utterly unable to study the real world. To make predictions, observe the world, challenge their assumptions. All they could do was fall back on peer-reviewed papers.

If it wasn't in a peer-reviewed paper, it simply didn't exist.

[elihu]

There's a saying that goes something like "sometimes half an hour in the library can save you two weeks in the lab". I think that's true, but at the same time, sometimes half an hour in the lab can save you two weeks in the library.