Ah, the good days when science articles depicted Old Man Winter as Janus-faced and holding a scepter and key … when scientists didn't presume that everything can be stated in a canonical language utterly devoid of metaphor.  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1910.

So in 1896 we had already sliced open the sun (to discover its labyrinthine innards), and yet NASA's launch of a solar probe has been pushed back to 2018.  One step forward, two steps back.  From The Half Hour Library of Travel, Nature and Science for Young Readers, 1896.

Science and Religion (holding a record book and a Bible) seek reconciliation through the goddess of Reason.  Above Reason's throne are the words analogy, perception, facts, logic, investigation, inference, and intelligence.  At Reason's feet is a sacrificed ball-and-chain of bigotry and dogma.  From Blasts from The Ram's Horn, 1902.

"The perfected discovery," from Crooked Places by Edward Garrett, 1894.

Viewed under a microscope, religions are composed of ions.

"Einstein’s space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh’s sky.  The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself.  The scientist’s discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer’s frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrandt nude differs from a nude by Manet."

Science holds a match to the sun: an illustration from an 1883 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from an 1876 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Science versus Mother Goose."

An illustration from a 1905 issue of Pall Mall magazine.  The caption simply reads: "Science."

Who could believe an ant in theory?
A giraffe in blueprint?
Ten thousand doctors of what's possible
Could reason half the jungle out of being.
—John Ciardi, qtd. in The Richness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould

via Clint Marsh

"'Science is systematized and formulated knowledge.'  Then anybody who has systematized and formulated knowledge enough to appear, on time, at the breakfast table, is, to that degree, a scientist.  There are scientific dogs.  Most of them have a great deal of systematized and formulated knowledge.  Cats and rabbits and all those irritating South American rodents that were discovered by cross-word puzzle-makers are scientists.  A magnet scientifically picks out and classifies iron filings from a mass of various materials.  Science does not exist, as a distinguishable entity."
—Charles Fort, Wild Talents