Human beings are very conservative in some ways and virtually never change numerical conventions once they grow used to them. They even come to mistake them for laws of nature.
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Foundation and Earth quotes
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Golan Trevize sets out with the historian Janov Pelorat and Bliss to find Earth, the legendary birthplace of humanity, hoping it will confirm his choice about humanity's future. Their search takes them to a series of strange, forgotten worlds.
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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
It is its rules that hold society together and bind it into a whole. Is it such a light thing to disregard the rules for trivial reasons?
Superstition always directs action in the absence of knowledge.