“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.”

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This quote has multiple variants: "The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking,"  "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them,"  "The world we have created today as a result of our thinking thus far has problems which cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created them," and  "The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking."<div><br></div><div>(Quote explanation from Alice Calaprice via Wikiquote: </div> https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein)<div><br></div><div>Original source of the quote can be found on The New York Times website: </div> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=990DE4D71538E133A25750C2A9609C946793D6CF&nytmobile=0&legacy=true.

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