„Omnis ars naturae imitatio est.“

— Seneca, Epistulae morales 65, 3


„Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is a part of the interplay between nature and ourselves; it describes nature as exposed to our method of questioning. This was a possibility of which Descartes could not have thought, but it makes the sharp separation between the world and the I impossible.“

— Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science, 1958