{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 84/1923-04-30/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"But anyone who has been involved in intellectual life for decades and has observed how this intellectual life has developed over the last three to four centuries can do no other than justify, as it were, what is regarded as knowledge today in relation to science. Natural science has indeed achieved so much in terms of exploring the external world of the senses; it has achieved so much in terms of applying instruments and experimental methods to research into this external world and its great laws, and it has confirmed and corroborated what it has discovered through the manifold empirical, technical and practical applications, without which we could no longer imagine our modern life. This natural science assumes that it can gain knowledge of the world that is as independent as possible of what man, out of his desires and his prejudices and preconceptions, can bring to the knowledge of the nature of things and world processes. And it is precisely by excluding all personal factors that science has achieved all its successes. But now, precisely the person who stands quite honestly on the ground of natural science, who sees through how beneficially this natural science has worked precisely for the knowledge of external nature, must say more and more to himself, out of the handling of the applied methods: to those regions in which the human soul-spiritual reigns, precisely natural science, as it has developed today, cannot penetrate. One might say, not because of its shortcomings, but precisely because of its merits.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Development and Education of the Human Being in the Light of Anthroposophy","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-04-30","location":null,"word_count":253,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/84/1923-04-30/p004","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":"What is the Purpose of Anthroposophy and the Goetheanum?","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA084/English/SOL2024/19230430p01.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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Die Naturwissenschaft hat ja in bezug auf Erforschung der äußeren Sinnenwelt so Großartiges geleistet; sie hat so Großartiges geleistet in bezug auf Anwendung von Instrumenten, von Experimentiermethoden für die Erforschung dieser äußeren Sinnenwelt und ihrer großen Gesetze und sie hat erhärtet und bekräftigt dasjenige, was sie erkannt hat, durch die mannigfaltigen empirisch-technischpraktischen Anwendungen, ohne die wir uns ja unser modernes Leben gar nicht mehr denken können. Diese Naturwissenschaft geht davon aus, eine Erkenntnis von der Welt zu gewinnen, die so unabhängig wie möglich ist von dem, was der Mensch aus seinen Wünschen und aus seinen Vorurteilen und Vorempfindungen zu den Erkenntnissen des Wesens der Dinge und der Weltvorgänge hinzubringen kann. Und gerade durch die Ausschaltung alles persönlichen Wesens hat die Naturwissenschaft ihre ganzen Erfolge erzielt. Nun wird aber gerade derjenige, der ganz ehrlich auf dem Boden der Naturwissenschaft steht, der durchschaut, wie segensreich diese Naturwissenschaft eben für die Erkenntnis der äußeren Natur gewirkt hat, aus der Handhabung der angewendeten Methoden heraus sich immer mehr und mehr sagen müssen: Zu denjenigen Regionen, in denen das menschliche Seelisch-Geistige waltet, kann gerade die Naturwissenschaft, wie sie sich heute ausgebildet hat, nicht vordringen. Man möchte sagen, nicht wegen ihrer Mängel, sondern gerade wegen ihrer Vorzüge.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":249,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/84/1923-04-30/p004"}],"english":["GA 84/1923-04-30/p004"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":249,"en_words":253,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8408,"original_word_count":7960,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"What is the Purpose of Anthroposophy and the Goetheanum?","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA084/English/SOL2024/19230430p01.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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