He was finding it a diverting task to make plain the gossiply report and to prevent the one — who, in his desperate effort to grasp the meaning of it all, was searching him — […]

The axiomatization of set theory formed the foundations, mathematically, of everything else.

Maybe I'll live long enough to see a newspaper reporter depicted on the screen as a gentleman, not a drunken, blabbermouthed, wise-cracking bum.

The æquation of the Earth encreaſeth from her Aphelion, until ſhe come to the point where it's greateſt, and from thence it again decreaſeth till ſhe come to her Perihelion, or oppoſite Auge: in like manner it increaſeth from her Perihelion to the point where it's greateſt, and afterwards decreaſeth till ſhe come againe to the Auge or Aphelion, …