Reading Nature is Like Interpreting the Bible

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

 Ignorance is God

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.

 Man Can Only Know from Observing Nature

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature. Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.