'"...You laughed at me when, at the beginning of my general studies, I said to you that all branches of human knowledge seemed to me to be inter-related, and that one must needs know almost everything to be infallible on any given point; in a word, that no special work could dispense with synthesis, and that before learning the mechanism of a watch it would be well to learn the mechanism of creation..."'
from The Sin of Monsieur Antoine by George Sand (Chapter XXVI)
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