We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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