#Asimov: psychologists are infallible scientists! prophets! priests! GODS!
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Q. Is it not obvious to anyone that the Empire is as strong as it ever was?
A. The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last for ever. However, Mr Advocate, the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the stormblast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might that it ever had. The stormblast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen with the ears of psychohistory, and you will hear the creaking.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation
#quote#quotation#Isaac Asimov#Foundation#empire#strength#rot#psychohistory#Asimov: psychologists are infallible scientists! prophets! priests! GODS!#actual psychologists: p-hacking data squeezed out of 30 WEIRD students that's never going to replicate#sorry sorry sorry#also amused to note psychohistory involves no actual history or historians
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