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“You can’t have geniuses and saints without having people far outside the norm, and I don’t see how you can have such things on only one side of the norm. There is bound to be a certain symmetry.
“I shouldn’t think that history would be that easy to eradicate,� said Trevize. “In many ways, it isn’t,� said Pelorat, “but a determined and powerful government can weaken it greatly.
There is a kind of free-masonry among males,� Trevize was grinning now, “and one male doesn’t betray another fellow-male. He would even help, if requested. The reasoning, I suppose, is that it might be the helper’s turn next to be helped.
Superstition always directs action in the absence of knowledge. The Foundation believes in the Seldon Plan, though no one in our realm can understand it, interpret its details, or use it to predict. We follow blindly out of ignorance and faith, and isn’t that superstition?�
Common belief, even universal belief, is not, in itself, evidence.�
