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“Yet even mathematicians must be young to begin with.”
My field of specialization is the mathematical analysis of social structure.” “Sounds horrible.”
“How harmful overspecialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding.”
“Apparently, mathematics and the martial arts are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Seldon smiled weakly. “A great many things are possible.” And to himself he added: But not practical.
Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions—not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.”
“Emotions, my dear Seldon, are a powerful engine of human action, far more powerful than human beings themselves realize, and you cannot know how much can be done with the merest touch and how reluctant I am to do it.”
“The trouble is, Hari, that a human being is easy to identify. I can point to one. It is easy to see what will harm a human being and what won’t—relatively easy, at least. But what is humanity? To what can we point when we speak of humanity?
