All of our exalted technological progress, civilization for that matter, is comparable to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

— Albert Einstein, Letter to Heinrich Zangger (1918)

Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=G_iziBAPXtEC&pg=PA5

From a December 1917 letter to Heinrich Zangger, as cited in Jürgen Neffe's Einstein: A Biography (2007).

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