“Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level.”

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American writer 1918–1992

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From "Atomic Education Urged by Einstein" https://web.archive.org/web/20140622171150/http://www.turnthetide.info/id54.htm, New York Times (25 May 1946), and later quoted in the article "The Real Problem is in the Hearts of Man" by Michael Amrine, from the New York Times Magazine (23 June 1946). A slightly modified version of the 23 June article was reprinted in Einstein on Peace by Otto Nathan and Heinz Norden (1960), and it was also reprinted in Einstein on Politics by David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann (2007), p. 383.
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In the 23 June article Einstein expanded somewhat on the original quote from the 25 May article:
: Many persons have inquired concerning a recent message of mine that "a new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move to higher levels."
: 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 knew it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
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