{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 80b/1921-01-28/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But this experience of the scientist seems perfectly understandable to someone who is immersed in scientific life, understandable because when you work further and further with modern methods, you don't actually arrive at a solution to important life and human riddles, as you might expect. If you believe that, you are indulging in an illusion. On the contrary, anyone who approaches science with an open mind, or rather, I should say, who conducts methodical research, especially if they not only pursue the natural sciences, but also want to transfer the scientific method to history, to the so-called humanities, will find that no solutions arise, but that the number of puzzles instead increases. You only really learn to recognize how mysterious the world around us is when you get to know it through the methods of modern science. But there is one thing we have to acknowledge when we reflect on ourselves in our research: What is it that we apply, regardless of whether we are conducting research in the laboratory or in the astronomical observatory or in the clinic? Well, my dear audience, however much some people, I would say through a radical materialism, may be mistaken about this, it is nevertheless not even a very high truth, but rather a trivial one, that if one wants to do scientific research, one must apply spirit, that in some way the spirit must be active in man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. Anthroposophy as a Body of Knowledge and a Way of Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-01-28","location":null,"word_count":236,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/80b/1921-01-28/p006","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 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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Im Gegenteil, derjenige, der ganz unbefangenen Sinnes sich hineinbegibt in das Wissenschaftliche, mehr, möchte ich sagen methodisch forscht, insbesondere derjenige, der nicht nur einseitig, sagen wir, Naturwissenschaft treibt, sondern der dann vielleicht die naturwissenschaftliche Forschungsweise auch auf die Geschichte, auf die sogenannte Geisteswissenschaft herüber übertragen will, er findet durchaus, dass sich nicht etwa Lösungen ergeben, sondern dass die Zahl der Rätsel immer größer und größer wird. Man lernt eigentlich erst erkennen, wie rätselhaft diese Welt, die uns umgibt, ist, wenn man sie gerade durch die Methoden der neueren Wissenschaft kennenlernt. Aber eines muss man doch anerkennen, wenn man sich gewissermaßen innerhalb des Forschens auf sich selber besinnt: Was ist es denn, was sich da — sagen wir — gleichgültig ob wir im Laboratorium forschen oder auf dem astronomischen Observatorium oder in der Klinik, was ist es denn, was wir da anwenden? Nun, meine sehr verehrten Anwesenden, wie sehr sich auch manche, ich möchte sagen durch einen radikalen Materialismus darüber täuschen mögen, es ist trotzdem gar nicht einmal eine sehr hohe, sondern eine sogar triviale Wahrheit, dass man, wenn man wissenschaftlich forschen will, Geist anwenden muss, dass in irgendeiner Weise der Geist im Menschen tätig sein muss.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":255,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/80b/1921-01-28/p006"}],"english":["GA 80b/1921-01-28/p006"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":255,"en_words":236,"ratio":0.93,"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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