“Quite undeservedly, the ether has acquired a bad name.”
Fantastic realities: 49 mind journeys and a trip to Stockholm, Singapore: World Scientific, 2006, p. 293, and "The Persistence of Ether": Physics Today, Vol. 52, Issue 1, pp. 11–13 (January 1999) http://xserver2.lns.mit.edu/%7Ecsuggs/physics_today/phystoday/Ether.pdf