Culture dictates invention - Isaac Asimov

Esta es la Tierra. No el eterno hogar de la Humanidad, sino el punto de partida de una infinita aventura. Todo lo que has de hacer para conseguirlo es tomar tu decisión. Es solo tuya. Tú, yo y el contenido de esa cueva estaremos protegidos por un campo de fisio-tiempo contra el Cambio. Cooper y su mensaje desaparecerán. La Eternidad desaparecerá junto con la Realidad de mi Siglo, pero nosotros nos quedaremos para tener hijos y nietos, y la Humanidad permanecerá para llegar hasta las Estrellas.

The image of Hari Seldon reached into open air and the book once more appeared in his hand. He opened it and said: "But whatever devious course your future history may take, impress it always upon your descendants that the path has been marked out, and that at its end is a new and greater Empire!

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.