People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you? - Isaac Asimov

Es menester recordar, claro está, que la historia es más que eso. Es también el registro de las ideas y costumbres que ha creado un pueblo, las obras de ingeniería que llevó a cabo, los libros que escribió, el arte que compuso, los juegos con que se divertía, su forma de vida, etc.

The saddest aspect of life now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Psychohistory, which can predict the fall, can make statements concerning the succeeding dark ages. The Empire, gentlemen, as has just been said, has stood twelve thousand years. The dark ages to come will endure not twelve, but thirty thousand years. A Second Empire will rise, but between it and our civilization will be one thousand generations of suffering humanity. We must fight that.