Quote #245
The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking. -- Einstein, fundraising telegram for the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, May 23, 1946, Einstein Archives, 40-11.
More from Albert Einstein
- The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
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- The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)
- The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Problems cannot be solved by the level of awareness that created them.
- The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.