floatsam

Updated: May 27, 2025

But, even while the cries of jubilation resound and this floatsam and jetsam of the tide of investigation is being turned into the wages of workmen and the wealth of capitalists, the crest of the wave of scientific investigation is far away on its course over the illimitable ocean of the unknown.

Thomas Henry Huxley - The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century