“It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word “intuition.””

— Isaac Asimov

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation’s Edge (1982), Chapter 18 “Collision” section 4, p. 377

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

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