We cannot solve the problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them

May have originated from Einstein's 25 May 1946 telegram quoted in this New York Times story, where he wrote "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe", along with a later comment "We need two hundred thousand dollars at once for a nation-wide campaign to let the people know that a new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels." The 1959 English translation of Hans Hellmut Kirst's The Seventh Day modified the two quotes and left out the intermediate part about funding for a nation-wide campaign: "The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our ways of thinking. Thus we are drifting toward a catastrophe beyond comparison. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive" (the original German version from 1957, titled Keinner Kommt Davon, has the quote as "Die entfesselte Macht des Atoms hat alles verändert, nur nicht unsere Denkweisen. Auf diese Weise gleiten wir einer Katastrophe ohnegleichen entgegen. Wir brauchen eine wesentlich neue Denkungsart, wenn die Menschheit am Leben bleiben soll.") This version is quoted verbatim in later sources like p. 23 of a statement given by Dr. Charles E. Osgood to the US Committee on Foreign relations on 25 May 1966, and a March 1979 story on p. 82 of The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Some also gave shortened versions which omitted the reference to "the unleashed power of the atom", as in the 1967 English translation of Josué de Castro's 1961 book The Black Book of Hunger, which on p. 4 attributed to Einstein the quote "It has become essential that mankind formulate a new mode of thinking if it wishes to survive and to reach a higher level." Ram Dass' 1974 book The Only Dance There Is, which consisted of transcripts of talks he had given in 1970 and 1972, on p. 38 attributed to Einstein the quote "The world that we have made as a result of the level