Albert Einstein Quotes About Atomic Bomb

• Mankind invented the atomic bomb,
  but no mouse would ever construct
  a mousetrap.

  Albert Einstein

  Bombs, Atomic Bomb, Mankind

• To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Mean, Responsibility

  Address to the symposium "The Social Task of the Scientist in the Atomic Era" at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, November 17, 1946.

• The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

• The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Telegram to prominent Americans, 24 May 1946

• In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

  Albert Einstein

  Brother, Men, Shadow

  Albert Einstein, Colette M. Kinnon, A. N. Kholodilin, J. G. Richardson (1981). “The Impact of modern scientific ideas on society: in commemoration of Einstein”, D Reidel Pub Co

• If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

  Albert Einstein

  Knowledge, Science, Should Have

• I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.118, Broadway Books

• The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Lying, Heart, Nuclear

  Albert Einstein, Colette M. Kinnon, A. N. Kholodilin, J. G. Richardson (1981). “The Impact of modern scientific ideas on society: in commemoration of Einstein”, D Reidel Pub Co

• Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.

  Albert Einstein

  Bombs, Succeed, Atomic Bomb

  "Atom: Einstein, the Man Who Started It All". Newsweek Magazine, March 10, 1947.

• Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Race, Order

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.561, Pickle Partners Publishing

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