Bottom-up vs. Top-down. Empiricism vs rationalism. There is unfortunately a dramatic lack of flexibility between the two. It's like Liverpool vs Manchester Unit

Bottom-up vs. Top-down. Empiricism vs rationalism. There is unfortunately a dramatic lack of flexibility between the two. It's like Liverpool vs Manchester United. There is also the fact that money doesn't flow as easily towards ideas, immaterial entities, (rationalism) as towards empiric results, tangible entities (empiricism). Data are also much easier to gather and store than ideas to find, which fosters the nsaization of science. An idea is worth nothing, a petabyte of data is worth something.