من ذا الذي ما كان ليُسخر منه لو قال في عام 1800 إنّ المعادن يمكن استخلاصها من خاماتها بالكهرباء، أو إنّ الصور يمكن رسمها بالكيمياء؟

“Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.”Michael Faraday — The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters (1899)