" 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.

{Commenting on Henri Becquerel's process for extracting metals by voltaic means.} "

― Michael Faraday , The Letters of Faraday and Schoenbein, 1836-1862, with Notes, Comments and References to Contemporary Letters