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“Bohr was not a professional philosopher. How much of traditional philosophers he read, one doesn’t know. But, he was an extremely intelligent man, and he must have thought through some of the issues [of] professional philosophers …
"[For example,] the Kantian issue of ‘the thing in itself’, the thing as it really is quite apart from human perception of it. Bohr, like Kant, was very suspicious that one can say anything intelligent, significant, controllable, about ‘the thing in itself.’
"He once said that physics, or science in general, is not about Nature, it’s about Nature exposed to our observation, and this is very Kantian.”
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