[ Yes!! ]

All of that, trying to understand how to alter reality, to see what makes it - magic is being connected to it and being able to manipulate it personally, at will, instead of with machines.

[ This is not.. totally true, probably, but it's the closest Severus has been able to come to something people understand. It also sounds nicer than 'Wizards are part of proper creation and muggles are tragically deficient'. ]