{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68b/1909-02-13/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"And I can make it clear to you what these inner pushers of thought are. During my time as a student, a colleague approached me with a red face and said: I have now made a wonderful invention; I have to go quickly to Radinger – that was the departmental representative – and explain my invention to him. It's something revolutionary. — He couldn't be stopped, he ran to the specialist and came back a little dejected. He had to wait an hour and yet had no time to lose with his world-changing invention! In the meantime, he wanted to explain the matter to me. He started. He was very perceptive and told me about an extraordinarily well-designed machine construction. He couldn't come to any other conclusion than that he had solved the problem: by using as little steam power as possible, which the machine initially consumes, with the help of the most diverse translations, it ultimately achieves a huge amount of work. I had the matter explained to me and finally I said: Yes, you see, if you boil the matter down to a simple idea, it is just as feasible as the important problem of standing inside a railroad car and pushing it. As surely as you move it forward, so surely does this machine work. — He also saw the matter immediately and no longer went to the expert.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"49. 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Während meiner Studentenzeit kam ein Kollege an mich heran mit rotem Kopf und sagte: Ich habe jetzt eine wunderbare Erfindung gemacht; ich muss schnell zum Radinger — das war der Fachreferent — und muss ihm meine Erfindung auseinandersetzen. Das ist erwas Weltumwälzendes. — Er ließ sich nicht aufhalten, rannte zum Fachreferenten und kam etwas bedrückt zurück. Er musste nämlich eine Stunde warten und hatte doch keine Zeit zu verlieren mit seiner weltumwälzenden Erfindung! In dieser Zwischenzeit wollte er die Sache mir erklären. Er fing an. Alles war sehr scharfsinnig. Er erzählte von einer außerordentlich schön ineinanderlaufenden Maschinenkonstruktion und konnte zu gar keinem anderen Resultate kommen, als dass er das Problem gelöst habe: durch möglichst wenig Dampfkraft, die die Maschine zuerst verzehrt, mithilfe der mannigfaltigsten Übersetzungen, schließlich eine Riesenmenge von Arbeitskraft zu leisten. Ich ließ mir die Sache erklären und zuletzt sagte ich: Ja sieh, wenn man die Sache auf einen einfachen Gedanken bringt, so ist sie ebenso ausführbar, wie das wichtige Problem, wenn du dich ins Innere eines Eisenbahnwagens stellst und diesen anschiebst. So wahr, wie du diesen vorwärts bringst, so wahr geht diese Maschine. — Er sah die Sache auch gleich ein und ging nicht mehr zum Fachgelehrten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":212,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/68b/1909-02-13/p016"}],"english":["GA 68b/1909-02-13/p016"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":212,"en_words":232,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8301,"original_word_count":8161,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Circular Flow of Man's Life within the World Of Sense, Soul And Spirit","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068b/English/SOL2024/19090213p01.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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