Let us leave theories there and return to here’s here.
Let theory guide your observations, but till your reputation is well established be sparing in publishing theory. It makes persons doubt your observations.
It is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory – let the theory go.
Dear friend, all theory is gray, and green the golden tree of life.
A truly rational theory would allow us to deduce the elementary particles (electron,etc.) and not be forced to state them a priori.