A mathematical truth is timeless, it does not come into being when we discover it. - Erwin Schrödinger

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

After that the whole system fades away into a dead, inert lump of matter. A permanent state is reached, in which no observable events occur. The physicist calls this the state of thermodynamical equilibrium, or of ‘maximum entropy’.

Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.