• Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

    Albert Einstein: Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.
    Letter to Heinrich Zangger (1917), as quoted in "Albert Einstein: A Biography" by Albrecht Fölsing, (p. 399), 1997.