in claiming this, they even cite Immanuel Kant in support of this view, However, as I have pointed it out, the laws of nature were not invented by man, but external factors forced him to recognize them. An a priori approach to the laws of nature, as well as to the universal constants, could make us imagine them quite differently from what they are in reality. But the positivist reference to Kant is based on a gross misunderstanding. Kant did not teach that man actually prescribes laws for nature. He taught simply that whenever man formulates the laws of nature, he always adds something of his own, too. Otherwise how would it be conceivable that according to Kant's own statement, no ex- ternal impression inspired in him a more pro- found feeling of respectful humility than the sight of the starry skies? After all, respectful hu- mility is not exactly the attitude which a man is in the habit of assuming toward a rule formulated by himself, Obviously, such senti nothing more than complexes of optical sensa- tions; he considers everything else as just a useful but basically arbitrary and unessential trimming.