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The fact that the world can be understood from its own make-up and that it is possible for scientists to discover natural laws can just as little be taken as proof of the nonexistence of a spiritual basis for the universe. The laws that govern the functioning of a watch are equally discoverable in the watch itself. So when it is stated that the laws that govern nature are to be found within the natural world and it is therefore unnecessary to look for anything divine in the universe, this reflects the same lack of thought as saying of watches that no watchmaker is needed because they are explainable on the basis of their own construction.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"6. Imaginative Cognition Leaves Insights of Natural Science Behind","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-09-04","location":null,"word_count":230,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/163/1915-09-04/p024","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Marjorie Spock","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Chance, Providence and Necessity","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA163/English/AP1988/19150904p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Wer heute eine Uhr verstehen will, muß sie aus ihrem eigenen Mechanismus heraus verstehen, und es wäre Unsinn, wenn jemand sagen würde: Nun ja, die Zeiger der Uhr gehen weiter, also sitzen darin kleine Dämonen, welche die Zeiger der Uhr leiten. — Solche Dämonen sind nicht darinnen. Wenn aber einer behaupten wollte, weil er die Uhr aus sich selber versteht, so habe die Uhr nichts zu tun mit dem Uhrmacher, der die Uhr einmal fabriziert hat, so würde er natürlich einen Unsinn sagen. Ebensowenig ist es ein Beweis für das Nichtvorhandensein einer geistigen Weltengrundlage, daß man die Welt aus sich selbst begreifen kann, daß der Naturforscher in der Lage ist, Naturgesetze zu finden. Wir finden in der Uhr auch die Gesetze, nach denen sich die Uhr selbständig richtet. 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