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: Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery was a soldier, dramatist and politician from the British Isles who sat in the House of Commons of England at various times between 1654 and 1679.