"The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had."

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That intellectuals, including academics, would become a "new class" of technocrats, claiming the name of science while cooperating with the powerful, was predicted by [Mikhail] Bakunin in the early days of the formation of the modern intelligentsia in the 19th century.

— Noam Chomsky