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: Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart known as Sir Robert Vansittart between 1929 and 1941, was a senior British diplomat in the period before and during the Second World War.