1. The natural order of the first sentence is, I am a whole Encyclopædia behind the rest of the world in everything that relates to science.
2. When the inverted expression is closely connected with what follows, the commas should be omitted; as,—
“Of Addison’s childhood we know little.”—Macaulay.
“That inward man I love that’s lined with virtue.”—Beaumont and Fletcher.
Rule VII. Short Quotations.—Short quotations should be separated from what precedes by a comma.
EXAMPLES.
The Italians say, “Good company in a journey makes the way to seem shorter.”
A writer in Lippincott’s Magazine says, “It is the little courtesies that make up the sum of a happy home.”
Schiller has said, “Men’s words are ever bolder than their deeds.”