“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”

“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)”

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

“No man or Genie on earth had "created" anything, we merely assembled God's Atoms, by learning it's properties, with his aid, so if anyone said that we had "invented" anything - he had Invented a lie; an unwise man.... thinks we have created an atom.”

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ”

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”