Can we ever know nature?

The ending of the Labyrinth reading was very interesting in light of some of theories we went over in Professor Goulding’s science class last semester. Pesic says that “nature’s cipher is unbreakable, though intelligible mathematical law operates underneath that cipher” (149) because it uses uncontrollable external randomness. This is why Einstein did not like quantum theory, because of this randomness and unpredictability. Pesic says: “The only way of getting truly random numbers is total stupidity, for any scintilla of mind will pollute the randomness with some taint of order” (150). So the world on the quantum level is completely random and we impose order on nature through our own minds. This idea really reminded of the Kant readings we did last semester and the fact that we merely interpret external appearances in our own mind and do not actually have any understanding of how the world really works. We just have our minds way of interpreting the ‘appearances.’ I was wondering if anyone else sees this connection, and if that means that the further we come to an understanding of nature, the closer we come to the Kantian conclusion that we can know nothing about nature as it really is? If that makes any sense.