“Remarkable what a fragile flower romance is. A gun with a nervous operator behind it can spoil the whole thing.”

— Isaac Asimov

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 11 “Stowaway”

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

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