> Theories help us decide what to observe, or where to look and what we're looking at.
Of course. But it's merely some heuristics helping to cut down the search space, not an inherent, fundamental property of the universe.
Of course. But it's merely some heuristics helping to cut down the search space, not an inherent, fundamental property of the universe.
Observation is useful to develop a theory (induction, or "educated guessing"). However, having a theory guides us towards newer, often subtler observations as we attempt to falsify it. Karl Popper called this the theory-ladeness of observation [1]
[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/