“Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr. Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it.”

— Isaac Asimov

Part II, The Encyclopedists, section 5
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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