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. ”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
В ответ на вопрос, почему люди смогли создать атомное оружие, но не могут установить контроль над ним
Francis Sears (1898–1975) American physicist
[Francis Weston Sears, Mechanics, heat and sound, Addison-Wesley principles of physics series Volume 1, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley Press, 1950, 447]
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) American theoretical physicist and professor of physics
Letter to his brother Frank Oppenheimer (14 October 1929), published in Robert Oppenheimer : Letters and Recollections (1995) edited by Alice Kimball Smith, p. 135
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Variant: The human heart... tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.
Source: The Complete Collected Poems
“It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.”
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007) Russian-born American mathematical psychologist
Anatol Rapoport (1956) "The Search for Simplicity"
1950s
Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States
After being refused a passport for his supposed disloyalty. The New York Herald Tribune (31 March 1954)
