6. Agnosticism in Science and Anthroposophy

In the moment when, for example, one does not simply follow the world of colors spread out before us, stringing one color appearance after another, in order to arrive at the lawful context of the colored, but when one goes from the phenomenon to something that lies behind it, which is not just supposed to be an auxiliary construction, but to establish a real one, if one proceeds to assume vibrations or the like in the ether, then one expands one's thinking - beyond the phenomenon. One pushes through, as it were, out of a certain dullness of thinking, the sensory carpet, and one postulates behind the sensory carpet a world of swirling atoms or the like, for which there is no reason at all in a self-understanding thinking, which only wants to be a servant for the ordering of phenomena, for the immanent, lawful connection within phenomena, but which, in relation to the external sense world, can say nothing about what is supposed to lie behind this sense world.