Hari Seldon

"In the long run, the mathematical nature of the universe cannot be denied"

"The future is not written; it is merely probable"

"Every action has consequences that ripple through time"

"The universe operates according to immutable laws"

"Psychohistory deals with mobs and populations, never with individuals"

"The real problem of the Foundation is its survival"

"Men are not machines and cannot be treated as such"

"Patience is the virtue of the long view"

"The future is not written, only predicted"

"Progress demands the sacrifice of the comfortable"

"We must think not of centuries but of millennia"

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it"

"Complexity is just a lot of simplicity"

"The fall of the Empire cannot be stopped"

"Psychohistory is the study of the reactions of human conglomerates to fixed social and economic stimuli"

"A seer must be a skeptic"

"Individual human beings are unpredictable but human conglomerates are not"

"The laws of nature are the canvas God laid down on which he painted his masterpiece"

"Foundation must grow without interference"

"I have come to believe that this is a very likely world we live in"

"The foundation is a seed that will grow"

"Mankind's greatest discovery was the discovery of his own mind"

"Knowledge is power only if properly applied"

"Entropy increases in all systems"

"The future belongs to those who believe in it"

"We inherit the past but we create the future"

"Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous"

"The edge of the universe curves back on itself"

"Mathematics is the language of the universe"

"Progress requires sacrifice"