“The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity — a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.”

— Isaac Asimov

Part I, The Psychohistorians, section 6
The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951)

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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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