• Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.
    "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1872.