The general idea is always an abstraction and, for that very reason, in some sort a negation of real life. And every time that scientific men, emergi… - Mikhail Bakunin

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The general idea is always an abstraction and, for that very reason, in some sort a negation of real life. And every time that scientific men, emerging from their abstract world, mingle with living creation in the real world, all that they propose or create is poor, ridiculously abstract, bloodless and lifeless, still-born, like the homunculus created by Wagner, the pedantic disciple of the immortal Doctor Faust.