If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
- - Falsely attributed to Albert Einstein in the New Statesman, April 16, 1965.
Today’s quote isn’t. That is to say, it’s a quote that never happened. This sentiment, in which Einstein apparently expresses remorse for his role in the development of the atomic bomb, was never actually spoken by Einstein. The quote is “debunked” by Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When (2006).
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