It is a calamity that the use of experiment has severed nature from man, so that he is content to understand nature merely through what artificial instruments reveal and by so doing even restricts her achievements... Microscopes and telescopes, in actual fact, confuse man's innate clarity of mind.

In: Ernst Lehrs, Man or Matter: Introduction to a Spiritual Understanding of Nature on, the Basis of Goethe's Method of Training Observation and Thought, Part II, Chapter IV (p. 111, 106)