Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Si el conocimiento puede crear problemas, no es con la ignorancia con lo que podremos resolverlo" (Isaac Asimov) - Isaac Asimov

they are trained from birth to accept authority.

I notice that capable men are still at a premium in our society; we still need the man who is intelligent enough to think of the proper questions to ask.

How the mighty had fallen! Kingdoms! They were prefects in the old days, all part of the same province, which in turn had been part of a sector, which in turn had been part of a quadrant, which in turn had been part of the all-embracing Galactic Empire. And now that the Empire had lost control over the farther reaches of the Galaxy, these little splinter groups of planets became kingdoms — with comic-opera kings and nobles, and petty, meaningless wars, and a life that went on pathetically among the ruins. A civilization falling. Nuclear power forgotten. Science fading to mythology — until the Foundation had stepped in. The Foundation that Hari Seldon had established for just that purpose here on Terminus.