"Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose."
Critique of Pure Reason
Text from ebooks@adelaide. Translation by J.M.D. Meiklejohn &lt;<a href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kant/immanuel/k16p/">Link to ebook</a>&gt;.<br>
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Reading Kant's <u>Critique of Pure Reason</u>, trans. Paul Guyer and Allen Wood (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998). 