It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.
Isaac AsimovTo those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment.
Isaac AsimovThey won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.
Isaac AsimovThe Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3 generations. The population must be in the billions (ยฑ75 billions) for a statistical probability to have a psychohistorical validity.
Isaac Asimov