It can be difficult to distinguish between spirits and scientists: both speak in weird voices, make loud unexplained noises, exude funky odors, and/or cause random electrical malfunctions.  If contact is made with an unfriendly spirit or scientist, instruct the entity to return from whence it came.  If the spirit or scientist refuses to leave, the next step is to engage someone experienced in exorcisms or house clearings.

Book title from Spirits and Scientists by David Hess, 1991.

The glory days of science.  From Walla Walla College's 1947 yearbook.

From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.

So often the caption is unhelpful.  "Roentgenographic application of the betatron."  Gesundheit!  From the University of Illinois' 1950 yearbook.

If you detect sequins over your eyebrows, it's likely the "kreptactic light sequentials" combined with atmospheric conditions.  Isn't science wonderful?  From I Dream of Jeannie, season 3, episode 9. 

Very accurate -- science is always mostly shrouded in darkness.  From Colorado College's 1917 yearbook.

The basic scientific method hasn't changed over the decades.  From College of the Albemarle's 1987 yearbook.

There have been some setbacks in the ensuing years, but back in 1949 Science And Religion Agree! by Milton Jenkins Jones.

Surprisingly, this page from a religious college's yearbook revises the Bible, changing "through a glass, darkly" (1 Corinthians 13) to "brightly," a revision used by anti-religionists.  (There's even a book with this revision as its title: Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are.)  Unable to control themselves, the yearbook editors ran with the revisionism and brought coffee into it: "Through a glass warmly."  From Mount Olive's 1963 yearbook.

From Purdue's 1905 yearbook.

It's an outright lie that art, religion, theatre, and sports aren't as heavy as science.  From North Central's 1944 yearbook.

One of the many tools we use to create our posts.  From New Worlds magazine, 1954.

Without a parrot, cat, and owl, it's merely pseudo-science.  From Purdue's 1915 yearbook.

This image is entitled "Science" in Taylor University's Gem yearbook, 1937.

You knew that beards make an impression, but here's the science of it.  From Park College's 1932 yearbook.

"That cold-blooded demon which we call Science is killing romance from amongst us.  Years ago everybody believed in the wonders of the invisible world, and ghosts were among the regular inhabitants of every rural district.  Now, we are so seldom suffered to see or hear of a ghost, that a visitation has the effect of novelty."  From Chambers's Journal, 1889.

"Science harnesses atoms to chariot of light."  From Popular Mechanics, 1923.

Here's a surprising bit of occultism in the world of Big Science.  We daren't ask why, but scientists pointed a tadpole's head at a plant to see if it would encourage growth.  And it did.  The so-called scientific explanation was that invisible radiations from the tadpole's head made it happen.  (We aren't making this up.)  What's hilarious is that Big Science's explanation is along the lines of what Big Magic thinks is going on.  And so this item goes in our very, very slim file of articles in Popular Mechanics that we actually believe.  From 1931.