centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of men, themselves, r… - Isaac Asimov

La Galaxia poblaba el cielo a gran altura, y su forma de lente nebulosa se extendía perezosamente a lo largo del horizonte. En comparación con ella, las escasas estrellas de aquel extremo del universo eran insignificantes destellos.

[B]y 1204, the only place where the entire body of Greek learning existed, still intact, was Constantinople. As a result of the crusaders' conquest, however, Constantinople was ruthlessly pillaged and destroyed and almost all the great treasures of ancient Greek learning were lost forever. It is because of that sack, for instance, that we have only seven plays left out of the better than one hundred written by Sophocles. The tragedy of 1204 can never be undone and for all of time, only bits and pieces of the marvelous Greek world can be known to us.

He never created a finish product. Finished products are for decadent minds. His was an evolving mechanism and the Second Foundation was the instrument of that evolution.