Hi! I found this quote and I think it's very interesting. I just want to know what are your opinions and point of views on it....
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
- Albert Einstein
2007-08-23 10:48:00 · 9 answers · asked by D!@Nn@ 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
great saying, never heard it b-4, maybe means since wwIII will be all huge bombs that eradicate society, www IV, will be a bunch of cave men or whose ever left after the big one drops.
2007-08-23 10:57:55 · answer #1 · answered by jennie 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is an interesting Einstein quote and one that I haven't come across before. I'm kind of reluctant to try to say what I think AE was thinking more clearly than he did himself. But looking at the situation in Iraq and in the Middle East in general, I think it's a situation where massive military power (in terms of weapons and budgets and training) are kept from doing what they've set out to do. "Sticks and stones" in 2007 means roadside bombs and suicide bombers on public transportation: puny compared to the opposition's military might, but quite effective at preventing their opponents from "winning" and keeping them perpetually afraid and thus weakened. If AE did mean that, it seems we're seeing it played out every day. And I hope you won't misunderstand me, I completely abhor the death or injury of anyone caught up in the whole mess by accident, whether he/she is an official (Iraqi, Israeli or US) trying to do their job or a civilian family who gets shot because the person at the end of the gun was too frightened/had too little time to make a good decision. I'll keep hoping that this ends before my son is old enough to get drafted and that somehow something useful can be learned from this, but I can't say I'm very optimistic.
2007-08-23 11:15:51 · answer #2 · answered by Leslie D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
probably it truly is profound. I actual tend to doubt the validity of costs attributed to Ben Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain and probable Will Rogers. they are approximately as valid as psalms attributed to King David. And only because of the fact a guy presupposed to have been a genius would have suggested it would not inevitably advise that it truly is actual, or actual continuously. there is info, case in point, that his spouse did truly some the maths on his concept of Relativity. have you ever regarded on the info that he would have had Asperger's syndrome? He did no longer do too badly for a report clerk in a Swiss customs place of work. What contribution have you ever made to Western Civilization? How long we could assume this question to have actual billing in Homework? is this the effect of the recent format, the comparable dreadful questions having the shelf life of Twinkies?
2016-12-12 10:40:40 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it means that the world war 2 will truly be fought by words, not actions.
2007-08-23 11:14:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The weapons of WWIII will bomb humanity back into the stone age. The vast amount of destruction will be so severe that it will destroy much of civilization--its infrastructure, knowledge and technology. Essentially, humanity will have to start anew.
2007-08-23 11:18:14 · answer #5 · answered by Gin Martini 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Smart guy- was Albert. I just hope he wasn't being overly optimistic.
2007-08-23 10:56:52 · answer #6 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
true statement. especially with the non-conventional weapons available today
2007-08-23 10:53:55 · answer #7 · answered by wickedturnip 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Certainly makes one pause - he's one of my favourites.
2007-08-23 12:05:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow... nice one... he was smart..
2007-08-23 11:29:34 · answer #9 · answered by brains 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋