Bernard, section III
The Waves (1931)
“We have the proof that our disagreement with the U. A. R. is more than a simple misunderstanding.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 545.
“That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than physics.”
Einstein when asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?” a conferee at a meeting at Princeton, N.J. (Jan 1946), as recalled by Greenville Clark in "Letters to the Times" in New York Times (22 Apr 1955), 24
1940s
Variant: That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than physics.
“That is simple my friend: because politics is more difficult than physics. ”
В ответ на вопрос, почему люди смогли создать атомное оружие, но не могут установить контроль над ним
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 148
“I am a simple Buddhist monk — no more, no less.”
As quoted in Nobel Prize Winners (1991) by Lisa F. Dewitt.
“If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.”
Source: The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
Letter to his brother Frank Oppenheimer (14 October 1929), published in Robert Oppenheimer : Letters and Recollections (1995) edited by Alice Kimball Smith, p. 135
Source: The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats (2002), Ch. 1
