What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.

Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

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.

Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the course of the centuries a human language by which we can speak about the more remote parts of reality, and the coherent sets of concepts as well as the different styles of art are different words or groups of words in this language.

The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material objects. The Ideas are more fundamental than the objects.

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.