"Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear."

"For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a …"

"If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreov…"

"Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei, a…"

"Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions."

"Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swin…"

"When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and…"

"I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation — with every reason to throw my mind a…"

"I shall explain a System of the World differing in many particulars from any yet known, answering in all things to th…"

"All the colours look brighter now. Everything they say seems to sound new. Slipping into tomorrow too quick, Yesterda…"