The main reason why he abandoned it is that he was going
to get exiled and sent to an island. The powers that be in his day were upset with him
just as he is upset with Helmholtz and Bernard.
But why
were they upset with him? The reason is that pure science is too involved with ideas
and thought. The government does not really want that. They just want people to
produce technology that is pretty much like what they already have. But pure science
does things like making people think. That is precisely what the society does not
want.
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