It is important to remember that the viciousness and wrongs of life stick out very plainly but that even at the worst times there is a great deal of … - Isaac Asimov

Lord Dorwin thought the way to be a good archaeologist was to read all the books on the subject — written by men who were dead for centuries.

The Foundation, as he says, was established as a scientific refuge – the means by which the science and culture of the dying Empire was to be preserved through the centuries of barbarism that have begun, to be rekindled in the end into a second Empire.

...el hombre ha tratado siempre de rehuir el concepto de infinitud, ya sea del espacio o del tiempo, como algo imposible de concebir y entender, y por ende, como un concepto con el que no es fácil trabajar ni razonar.