We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. It's what makes us men. - Isaac Asimov

They work off all their resentments, enjoy all the smug self-satisfaction a young revolutionary would have, and by the time they take their place in the Imperial hierarchy, they are ready to settle down into conformity and obedience.

Algunos Eternos han llegado más allá del Siglo Ciento cincuenta mil. — ¿Qué aspecto tiene? — Completamente distinto del actual. Hay muchas especies vivientes, pero ninguna humana. El Hombre ha desaparecido.

To the philosophical mind, these items might seem scarcely worth any great trouble to acquire. Yet no one, however philosophical, could give up those privileges, once acquired, without a pang. That was the point.