Experimenters are the shocktroops of science… An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature… - Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

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Experimenters are the shocktroops of science… An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature, and a measurement is the recording of Nature’s answer. But before an experiment can be performed, it must be planned – the question to nature must be formulated before being posed. Before the result of a measurement can be used, it must be interpreted – Nature’s answer must be understood properly. These two tasks are those of theorists, who find himself always more and more dependent on the tools of abstract mathematics.