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"We cannot solve the problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them"

— Albert Einstein

January 1, 1970

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Albert Einstein

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May have originated from Einstein's 25 May 1946 telegram quoted in this New York Times story, where he wrote "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe", along with a later comment "We need two hundred thousand dollars at once for a nation-wide campaign to let the people know that a new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels." The 1959 English translation of Han

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May have originated from Einstein's 25 May 1946 telegram quoted in this New York Times story, where he wrote "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe", along with a later comment "We need two hundred thousand dollars at once for a nation-wide campaign to let the people know that a new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels." The 1959 English translation of Han