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


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." - The Gods Themselves (1972)


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

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

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

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