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It is highly desirable, however, that those who want to do significant research in the spiritual realm have acquired the inner discipline and conscientiousness that I characterized at the beginning of my discussion as the inner discipline and conscientiousness acquired through scientific research. Those who have not undergone the training provided by modern science can basically only produce nebulous ideas in the field of spiritual science. What the anthroposophical spiritual science referred to here aims to achieve should not be confused with the vague and hazy products of mystics or the like, who proceed without this inner discipline, sometimes with downright indiscipline, without this inner conscientiousness, indeed with a lack of conscience, when they present their so-called spiritual experiences to the world, which unfortunately are only too easily believed by the undiscerning. A truly scientific method must be acquired in the same strict sense and on the same presupposition as that on which the training of the natural scientist is based, as is the natural scientific method itself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. Knowledge of Nature and Knowledge of the Mind","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-07-27","location":null,"word_count":263,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/77a/1921-07-27/p027","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Task of Anthroposophy in the Context of Science and Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA077a/English/SOL2024/19210727p01.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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Nur ist es im höchsten Grade wünschenswert, daß die, die maßgeblich irgend etwas erforschen wollen in der geistigen Welt, dasjenige genossen haben, was ich im Eingang meiner Auseinandersetzung charakterisiert habe als die durch das naturwissenschaftliche Forschen angeeignete innere Disziplin und Gewissenhaftigkeit. Wer nicht die Schulung durchgemacht hat durch die moderne Naturwissenschaft, der kann im Grunde genommen nur Nebuloses auf dem Gebiete der Geisteswissenschaft hervorbringen. Es sollte das, was die hier gemeinte anthroposophische Geisteswissenschaft will, nicht verwechselt werden mit dem, was die im Nebulosen verschwimmenden Mystiker oder dergleichen hervorbringen, die ohne diese innere Disziplin, manchmal geradezu mit Disziplinlosigkeit, ohne diese innere Gewissenhaftigkeit, ja mit Gewissenlosigkeit vorgehen, wenn sie der Welt ihre sogenannten geistigen Erlebnisse vormachen, die leider nur allzu leicht dann von Urteilslosen geglaubt werden. Wahrhafte geisteswissenschaftliche Methodik muß in demselben strengen Sinne errungen werden und auf der Voraussetzung dessen, was man als naturwissenschaft licher Forscher ausbildet, wie eben die naturwissenschaftliche Methode selbst.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":237,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/77a/1921-07-27/p027"}],"english":["GA 77a/1921-07-27/p027"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":237,"en_words":263,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.05,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6886,"original_word_count":6580,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Task of Anthroposophy in the Context of Science and Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA077a/English/SOL2024/19210727p01.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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