Imagine you are dating a woman, saying: "It's wrong to think that my task is to find out how she is. I am only concerned about what I can say about her.".

You could likewise say: "I am not interested what she is. I am only interested in what I can make out of her."

Transpose this now upon physics: "We are not interested what nature is. We are only interested what we can make out of nature."

On a personal level that would be narcissism. On a social level that would be capitalism. In both cases you are more interested in exploiting, than in real knowledge. At least that is what it sounds like to me.