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• Title: Foreword: First Scientific Lecture-Course
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  • good thing for mankind that in this Movement some
  • as nothing was held valid as “secure knowledge”
  • those things which we can investigate by means of the outer
  • more intimate circles I might speak of many things in a form
• Title: First Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • The second thing, done
  • of Physics. There is one thing however to which we may draw attention
  • things we really must reach clarity. You see, dear Friends, along the
  • accustomed way of approach to Nature we have three things to begin
  • with — things that are really exercised by man before he
  • is something man understands on its own ground, in and by itself.
  • arithmetic, we receive something which, to begin with, has no
  • three to which I have referred is again a thing we do before we come
  • of their angles, — all these are things which we determine
  • things purely in the mind, using the crutches of outer illustration
  • it. So we ourselves do something quite apart from Nature and then
  • third thing which we do, still before reaching outer Nature. I am
  • outer Nature there is really something like the point a
  • Ib). This time, the point a will signify a material thing —
  • difference between all those things that can be determined within the
  • — the thing is actually pulled from a to b
  • — a mass, that possesses weight among other things. This you
  • moment we take leave of things which we can settle purely in the
  • weighed. So then I have to express myself in terms of something very
  • everything in mechanical terms. It looks for centric forces and their
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• Title: Second Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • move, it must be something in outer space. In short, we must suppose
  • of the fact that the point must be something in space, and this
  • “something” may be bigger or it may be smaller;
  • side of the equation we have mass, i.e. the very thing we can never
  • see, when I write v2, therein I have something
  • m on the other hand, I must first ask: Is there anything in
  • something: you thus acquaint yourself with the simplest form of
  • something with your finger. Now we must ask ourselves: Is there
  • something going on in us when we exert pressure with our finger,
  • some-thing you will probably recall from your school-days; I have no
  • to take hold of such things as physical weight and buoyancy for
  • need some deepening of Science to take hold of these things. We
  • light works purely and simply as light, not only do we lose nothing
  • add nothing to the facts in saying this): — the cylinder of
  • upward and deflected. Here then is something that deflects our
  • cloudy medium you see something more. The dimming has an effect,
  • after. Here then we are dealing with the interaction of two things:
• Title: Third Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • things which you will not find in the text-books, things not included
  • you who found things difficult to understand). Your difficulty lies
  • light came to his notice. Among other things, he learned of the
  • thing to imagine, no doubt, but that is what they said. And when we
  • often happens, one does not get down to a thing right away. Now
  • was uniform white he saw nothing of the kind. Goethe was roused. He
  • himself: It is not that the light is split up or that anything is
  • prism, I should of course get something very like what we had
  • thing differently by using a prism with curved instead of plane
  • ourselves are adding something which has nothing to do with the light
  • aperture. What I draw has nothing to do with the light; I am only
  • that again has nothing to do with the light as such; for if I moved
  • all manner of other things, — light-rays and so on. The
  • things that are not given.
  • vessel with water or some other liquid up to here. A strange thing
  • thing happens. I see the object lifted to some extent. I see it, and
  • facts? Having previously seen the thing in this direction, I expect
  • direction. And now the physicists go on to say a very curious thing.
  • penetrate. They want to leave all this out and to ascribe everything
  • distinctly how abstract everything is made in our conventional
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• Title: Fourth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • follows: When I look through darkness at something lighter, the light
  • If for example I look at anything luminous and, as we should call it,
  • illumined, you will be looking at the dark through something light.
  • things: first the simple light as it streams on, and then the dimness
  • you — you see something light, namely the cylinder of light
  • itself, but you are seeing it through dark. (That there is something
  • region). Through something darkened — through the blue colour,
  • in effect — you look at something light, namely at the
  • through a space that is lit up. Thus you are seeing something darker
  • but while these things are calculated very neatly, one cannot but
  • lighter. The next thing to happen, one step further on, is that once
  • adding things out of the blue, of which man has no knowledge. Of
  • it volatilizes. Then a peculiar thing happens. Making a spectrum, not
  • thing comes about when we combine the two experiments. We generate
  • These are the things
  • which I would have you note. A physicist explaining things in
  • nothing, — is the mere absence of light. Yet if I leave a strip
• Title: Fifth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • careful experiment, it is true, we should perceive that everything
  • Bunsen. If we arrange things so that the source of light generating
  • Bologna stone, we can take the light away and the thing still goes on
  • to all these other things. Please, once again, only think quite
  • velocity. That it has this velocity, is the one real thing about it.
  • velocity, the one thing actually there, we by our thinking process
  • time. The space and time, compared to this real thing which we denote
  • duality of space and time. The real thing we have outside us is the
  • to us, — that is the essential thing. Here once again you see
  • “objective” thing — here, the velocity. It will be
  • from them — is also true of another thing. But, my dear Friends
  • have said of space and time is also true of something else. Even as
  • common to us and the things outside us — the so-called bodies.
  • room with light, the space becomes filled with something — call
  • it x, if you will — something in which you are and in
  • which the things outside you are. It is a common element in which
  • common to us and to the things outside us; whilst in the colours we
  • have to recognize something that can only make its appearance
  • direct kind; nothing is interposed between you and the colours. When
  • on the other hand you see the colours of bodily objects, something is
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• Title: Sixth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • perceive the thing displaced. It appears at a different place than
  • anything at all through the same denser medium, and we now try to
  • The part below it, which I am treating as if it were just nothing
  • never to speak of rays of light or anything of that kind, but only of
  • in reality is never simply light as such; it is always something
  • must take the dark seriously, — take it as something real. (The
  • century were only able to creep in because these things were not
  • must approach these things with the help of some comparison. Truly,
  • out, we have to give away, — we have to give something of
  • quality of coming towards us and imparting something to us; the dark
  • Something in our outer world communicates itself to us when we are
  • under the influence of light; something is taken from us, we are
  • will feel something very like this in the absorption of our
  • light, the enduring colours. We cannot treat all these things
  • in a way unite with this light-filled space. Something in us swings
  • all things have thus been blurred. Our scientists have lost the
  • adding something to the given fact; you are no longer purely and
  • something else. Needless to say, the impacts in the theory of
  • There would be nothing complete in that; I only have something
  • ponder the reality of what I see. The mere fact that I see a thing
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• Title: Seventh Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • there is nothing there. You yourself, as it were, see the green
  • requisite conditions. Whilst in the other case we have something,
  • one thing we must insist on in this connection. The
  • these things will lead you no longer to look for the contrast,
  • there, or in your frontal cavity? We are not outside the things,
  • our being are in the things; moreover we are in them even more
  • in realizing this we may also become aware of something more.
  • from this being an unconscious thing, your consciousness indwells
  • environment. — If you think these things through, you will
  • imparting something to us. But this grows different again when we
  • ourselves have something of the airy element within us in a
  • to outward appearance. There is our breathing process: we
  • through my breathing, am forever living in this rhythmic,
  • breathing process. In that my bodily organism partakes in these
  • oscillations of the breathing process, there is an inner
  • Something, they say, is going on in the space outside, this then
  • the outcome. Here then again we have something localized —
  • the Science of the Senses, as though such a thing as
  • however one more thing I want to demonstrate today. It is among the
• Title: Eighth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • such a thing as a velocity of light, you may then call the time
  • — and you get something like a “velocity of propagation
  • of the earliest things to which men became attentive in this
  • especially took up the study of these things. In the 17th century
  • strong tendency, above all things, not to enter spiritually into
  • main things we now have to discover is what happens when we
  • us are only the oscillations. Could anything be clearer? — so
  • condensations and attenuations; that unknown something within me
  • nothing at all and had better close the book.
  • Such things,
  • this and nothing else. It is of course open to the physicist to be
  • upon me of the vibrations of your brain. To see through a thing
  • like that is of untold significance; nothing could be of greater
  • with another person and he says something you yourself have just
  • never gain insight into these things unless we have the will to see
  • air. Remember too what I was saying: a thing may look complete and
  • the breathing process, to which the rhythmic rise and fall of the
  • human being so as to bring him to life instead of seeing things in
  • truly to relate to the ear. Such things as the expanding portions
  • path. We can have no real knowledge of these things if we relate
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• Title: Ninth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • explanations may be rounded off, to give you something more
  • beginning no doubt with things that are well-known to you from your
  • peculiar thing is that positive electricity always induces and
  • had discovered something of very great significance. He had found
  • two things at once, truth to tell, — two things that should
  • inorganic realm. But we have something else as well, if once again
  • which Galvani had observed contained two things. One of them can be
  • means of different metals with the help of liquids. The other thing
  • proof that with electricity something like a wave-movement is
  • your knowledge of these things; I cannot go into them all from the
  • something is there, demanding our consideration),—
  • due to something of a material kind — though in a very
  • indicated that this was something somehow identifiable with matter,
  • something quite different after all? In course of time the
  • things — say, to a magnet — it shews some properties
  • most interesting things was discovered in the 1890's by Roentgen
  • that the real thing in space is the velocity; it is velocity
  • which justifies us in saying that a thing is real. Here now you see
  • differences in velocity as the most essential thing. What is it
  • brings about the most important things that play into the life of
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• Title: Tenth Lecture (First Scientific Lecture-Course)
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  • nothing more revolutionary in any realm than this most recent
  • the raying light itself something like radiating electricity. I do
  • something like a shadow of the St. Andrew's cross, from which you
  • telling you how in the further study of these things it appeared
  • another thing emerges from these materials, known as radium etc. It
  • changes into helium, for example; so it becomes something quite
  • something of the direction from which it first began, that we were
  • pure Geometry — was a thing handed down from ancient time.
  • — and something radically different. For we have certainly
  • things do not directly belong to one-another. They belong as
  • unfold when half-asleep belongs directly to the outer things which
  • indeed many things like this in modern Physics, — very
  • Yet as you do so you become aware; herein is something far more
  • undulation or anything like that for you to dive into; but you now
  • scientific courses we shall also have done something for the good
  • Strange things
  • on one side joins up with what is wrong on another. What of a thing
  • there is in him something of Kant and Konigsberg!) It was a lecture
  • the scientific laboratories and the General Staffs. How many things
  • where the new things which mankind needs can spring to life. In the