By your logic, Einstein identified his theory of relativity by assembling the most commonly used phrases in physics papers until he had one that passed a few written language parsing tests.
Well, yes. He leant on Riemann and sci-fi writers of the 19th century who were voguish at the time (tensors and time were a hot topic) and came up with a novel presentation of previous ideas, which then passed the parsing tests of publication and other cross-checking models - other physicists - and then, later, reality, with the transit of mercury.