We aren't going to uncover the universe with just prediction.

"One feature that seems well established is that the universe is shaped and determined entirely by nonlinearities; that is, nonlinear relationships between every entity--space, time, energy, matter, and so on-- of which the universe is composed."

From Scientific Freedom

"We have yet to discover precisely how life on Earth emerged, but we do know that proteins play an essential role in the later stages of that process, and that proteins are essentially unstable. If they were not, we could not exist as there would be no living cells, no renewal through birth and death, not only of cells but of whole organisms, and no mutations and no evolution."