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One assumes, when working methodically in the laboratory, when doing research in the clinic, when trying to fathom the secrets of the world at the astronomical observatory, that somehow, through the sea of the scientific method, one must arrive at something that is either an insurmountable limit or something similar to what is already known. Just as Columbus more or less predicted that he would have to find something already known, so it is also assumed in science that one must find something already known. After all, molecules and atoms are nothing more than, I would say, penetrating into the smallest, into that which one also sees with ordinary eyes, making sense.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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Man setzt voraus, wenn man methodisch im Laboratorium arbeitet, wenn man in der Klinik forscht, wenn man am astronomischen Observatorium die Weltengeheimnisse ergründen will, dass man irgendwie durch das Meer der wissenschaftlichen Methode ankommen müsse bei irgendetwas, was entweder eine unübersteigliche Grenze ist oder was doch in einer gewissen Weise ähnlich ist dem schon Bekannten. Wie Kolumbus gewissermaßen voraussagte, dass er etwas schon Bekanntes finden müsse, so setzt man auch in der Wissenschaft voraus, dass man irgendetwas Bekanntes finden müsse. Die Moleküle und Atome sind ja zuletzt doch nichts anderes, als, ich möchte sagen ins Kleinste zu dringen, in dasjenige, was man auch mit gewöhnlichen Augen sieht, Sinn zu bringen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":208,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1921-01-28/p005"}],"english":["GA 80b/1921-01-28/p005"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":208,"en_words":209,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":17469,"original_word_count":17257,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Inner Nature and Essence of the Human Soul","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA080b/English/SOL2024/19210128p01.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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