He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, for which their professional specialisation has no use but by which their conversation profits.
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About Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Marcel Proust, Swann's Way.
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- Science — Discovery, inquiry, and the wonders of the natural world