I do not consider myself the father of the release of atomic energy. My part in it was quite indirect. I did not, in fact, foresee that it would be released in my time. I believed only that it was theoretically possible. It became practical only through the accidental discovery of chain reaction, and this was not something I could have predicted.
From "Atomic War or Peace," Atlantic Monthly, November 1945
The Quotable Einstein, compiled by Alice Calaprice
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provided. Each one is unique and shows clearly a different class of brain.
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