Michael Faraday Quote

Such is... the progress which electricity has made in the last thirty years: chemistry and magnetism have successively acknowledged its overruling influence: and it is probable that every effect depending upon the powers of inorganic matter, and perhaps most of those related to vegetable and animal life, will ultimately be found subordinate to it.

Experimental Researches in Electricity (Volume 1), Eleventh Series, 1161 (p. 360)