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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.
Simplicius of Cilicia

Born: 490
Died: 560 (aged 70)
Bio: Simplicius of Cilicia was a disciple of Ammonius Hermiae and Damascius, and was one of the last of the Neoplatonists.
Known for:
- Corollaries on Place and Time
- On Aristotle's On the Heavens 1.5-9
- On Aristotle on the soul 1.1-2.4
- On Aristotle's On the Soul 3.1-5
- On Aristotle's On the Heavens 2.1-9