Following the dawn of the atomic age, Albert Einstein lamented humanity's superior scientific prowess compared to our deficient political abilities in managing its devastating potential.
“That is simple, my friend. It is because Politics is more difficult than physics.”
Albert Einstein when asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?” a conferee at a meeting at Princeton, N.J. (Jan 1946), as recalled by Greenville Clark in "Letters to the Times" in New York Times (22 Apr 1955), 24.
