Point and Line to Plane by Wassily Kandinsky

In my efforts to understand abstract painting better, I read Wassily Kandinsky's "Point and Line to Plane".  This book was intended to break down and explain Wassily's theories, thoughts, and approach to abstract painting.
I found the book difficult to read because the thoughts within it were not supported.  Wassily seemed to take positions at odds with 
each other and did not attempt to bridge the gap between them.  He spoke about the spiritual evolution while trying to frame the measure of that work through the "science of art".
The "science of art" was described as an objective quantification that would eliminate opinion from the evaluation of art.  Wassily said that this " science of art" would require development.  His contribution would be to describe point, line and plane scientifically.  Sad to say there was no scientific theory forwarded by Wassily.
Wassily seemed to get caught up in the zeitgeist of  the world around him.  The 30's were full of scientific breakthroughs.  It seems like Wassily wanted to be the artist that made his own breakthrough by being able to take art from the subjective to the objective.  He pulls comparisons from music, language, and astronomy to help explain parallels in the scientific description of art.
Ultimately, there are no scientific processes presented to support his thoughts.  There is only his expression of the great need to develop this theory and a vast number of pen and ink drawings that are intended to diagram the conversion of things like bars of music into abstract representations.  These pseudo-scientific diagrams seem like a desperate attempt to convince us and himself that he has come up with a new science.