Helioseismology, like terrestrial seismology, provides information about the interior of the body under study by using observations of slight motions on the surface.

an impressive protest against gaming, swearing, and all immoral practices which might forfeit divine aid in the great struggle for National Independence

The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.

…the very unstraightforwardness of the relationship between image and dramatic production greatly enhances the iconography’s value as a source of evidence for theater history. Selection and distortion have a great deal to tell us about the way ancient artists saw or liked to see or, better still, thought their customers liked to see drama….