"The data set included 533 Nobel Prize-winning discoveries and 228 other major discoveries recognized in scientific literature. ... 25% of these discoveries di

"The data set included 533 Nobel Prize-winning discoveries and 228 other major discoveries recognized in scientific literature. ... 25% of these discoveries did not employ the full scientific method. Specifically, 6% of these discoveries did not involve observation, 23% did not include experimentation, and 17% did not test a hypothesis." “Empirical evidence thus challenges the common view of the scientific method,” Krauss writes, and “adhering to it as a guiding principle would constrain us in developing many new scientific ideas and breakthroughs.”