I've heard people make that framing over the years, and I really don't know where they come up with it.
The value of the scientific method is exactly that theories are maybe, leading to testing via hypothesis.
When I hear people saying theory is certain, they really get the whole point of #science backwards. If the theory was certain there would be nothing worth testing.
Just for completeness, the way I'd frame science is:
A model describes what you see
A theory guesses at how the model works
An experiment stresses the theory, trying to break it
A hypothesis is the stress point where the theory may break