Potential by Isaac Asimov

Author:Isaac Asimov
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781590620069
Published: 2003-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

That evening, Nadine said, “We've got to study the boy.”

“Why? What have you heard that gives you any hope?”

“Suppose you're right. Suppose it's all atrophied. Still, we might find a trace of the ability.”

“What would we do with a trace? Small effects would not be convincing. We have had a full century of experience with that, from Rhine onward.”

“Even if we don't get anything that would prove anything to the world, so what? What about ourselves? The important thing is that we'd satisfy ourselves that when Multivac says a particular genetic pattern has the potential for telepathy, it's right. And if it's right, that would mean your theoretical analysis-and my programming, too-was right. Don't you want to put your theories to the test and find confirmatory evidence? Or are you afraid you won't.”

“I'm not afraid of that. I am afraid of wasting time.”

“One test is all I ask. Look, we ought to see his parents anyway, for whatever they can tell us. After all, they knew him when he was a baby and had, in full, whatever telepathic powers he might have had to begin with-and then we'll get permission to have him match random numbers. If he fails that, we go no further. We waste no more time.”* * * *

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