24 May 2005 - experimentalist

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2005 : 24 May 2005

theorist - One who makes up crazy stuff and, when skilled, sees it turn out to be true.

experimentalist - One who eventually succeeds in showing that, no matter how crazy it is, it’s false anyway.

clue:

“Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.” — Niels Bohr