Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.
No sand-blast of science had yet skimmed off the epidermis of history, thought, and feeling. The Education of Henry Adams (1918)
Mystery for mystery science beats religion hollow. I can't open my mouth in my lecture-room without repeating ten times as many unintelligible formulas as ever Hazard is forced to do in his church. Esther: A Novel (1884)