"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason,
the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as be pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries." — Robert Jastrow, last sentence in God and the Astronomers (1978)
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions,
I found an altar with this inscription,
TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship,
him declare I unto you
Acts 17:23