"All the physics experiments in the world aren't going to give you insight into problems unless you have workable ideas for how to integrate the findings into u

"All the physics experiments in the world aren't going to give you insight into problems unless you have workable ideas for how to integrate the findings into understanding/knowledge." That's why you need both. You can't solve physics just by thinking about it, and you can't solve it just by doing experiments. And "solving physics" may also involve solving math, chemistry, philosophy and even linguistics (after all "the new physics" may not be describable in our own language, and AI will need to come up with a creative way to explain it to us)