What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Bio: Richard Edgar Pipes was a Polish-American academic who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the Soviet Union, who espoused a strong anti-communist point of view throughout his career.
Known for:
Russia Under the Old Regime (1974)
Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime 1919-1924 (1993)
A Concise History of the Russian Revolution (1995)