Humanity Quotes

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

"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."

"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."

"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."

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

"If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left."

"Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal."

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."

"It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."