This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation.

chapter 1, The Law of Gravitation, p. 15: video - The Character of Physical Law (1965)

Richard Feynman - The.Character of Physical Law - Part 1 The Law of Gravitation (full version)