"To Mankind And the hope that the war against folly may someday be won, after all."
— Isaac Asimov

January 1, 1970

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Dedication, p. 5; this refers to the quotation of Friedrich Schiller from which Asimov derived the title of this novel: "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."