Sure you are. You're weak on logic, that's the trouble with you. You're like the guy in the story who was caught in a sudden shower and who ran to a … - Isaac Asimov

To be sure, the Bible contains the direct words of God. How do we know? The Moral Majority says so. How do they know? They say they know and to doubt it makes you an agent of the Devil or, worse, a Lbr-l Dm-cr-t. And what does the Bible textbook say? Well, among other things it says the earth was created in 4004 BC. (Not actually, but a Moral Majority type figured that out three and a half centuries ago, and his word is also accepted as inspired.) The sun was created three days later. The first male was molded out of dirt, and the first female was molded, some time later, out of his rib. As far as the end of the universe is concerned, the Book of Revelation (6:13-14) says: "And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." ... Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes in order to tell us what books to read and what not, what thoughts to think and what not, what conclusions to accept and what not. And what does the Bible say? "If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch" (Matthew 15:14).

Lo scibile è talmente vasto che gli specialisti si aggrappano alle loro specialità come a uno scudo, per non dover conoscere nulla degli altri campi ed evitare di essere sommersi.

Com'è dannosa la specializzazione eccessiva. Recide la conoscenza in mille punti e lascia aperte le ferite

Gli avvenimenti che si svolgono in un luogo si ripercuotono ovunque, mi pare. Eppure, non riesco a trovare nulla che mi aiuti. Vedi, Dors, in matematica si può trovare tutto nel computer: quello che sappiamo ora e quello che abbiamo scoperto in ventimila anni. Con la storia, il discorso cambia. Gli storici scelgono e selezionano, e qui tutti scelgono e selezionano la stessa cosa

(Preludio alla Fondazione)

Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me," he said, "then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.