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Quotation

German translation: "Die entfesselte Macht des Atoms hat alles verändert, nur nicht unsere Denkweise. Auf diese Weise gleiten wir einer Katastrophe

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English term or phrase:Quotation(from A. Eisntein)
German translation:"Die entfesselte Macht des Atoms hat alles verändert, nur nicht unsere Denkweise. Auf diese Weise gleiten wir einer Katastrophe
Entered by: Russ

05:56 Nov 19, 2002
English to German translations [PRO]
Science - Physics / physics
English term or phrase: Quotation
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
ATTRIBUTION: Albert Einstein
Could you please put into German?? Russ
Russ
Local time: 13:07
nur um die Verwirrung noch zu vergrößern
Explanation:
und falls Du eine Literaturangabe verwenden möchtest:

"Die entfesselte Macht des Atoms hat alles verändert, nur nicht unsere Denkweise. Auf diese Weise gleiten wir einer Katastrophe ohnegleichen entgegen."
Moltmann, B.: Perspektiven der Friedensforschung, Baden-Baden 1988
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Annette Scheler
Germany
Local time: 18:07
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Summary of answers provided
5 +6nur um die Verwirrung noch zu vergrößern
Annette Scheler
2 +6Zitat (?)
Susanne Rosenberg
4 -2die Ubersetzung ist wie folgend:
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41 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -2
die Ubersetzung ist wie folgend:


Explanation:
Die freigesetzte Energie des Atoms hat alles geandert ausser unseren Denkweisen und deshalb treiben wir zu eine beispiellose Katastrophe.

This is pretty much it. By the way, I recently translated personal handwritten letters from Einstein for the American Museum of Natural History in NY.

TDVTrans
United States
Local time: 12:07
Native speaker of: Native in FlemishFlemish, Native in DutchDutch, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Geneviève von Levetzow: Grammatikalisch falsch
33 mins
neutral  dieter haake: wie wahr
47 mins
disagree  Steffen Pollex (X): Falsch und ohne Quellenangabe. Ich denke der Fragesteller braucht eine offizielle Übersetzung.
1 hr
disagree  Iris Seifert (X): Don''t translate into German if you are not a German native. Not only are there grammatical errors, the German usage is also not accurate for the word "treiben".
10 hrs
  -> First let me say this: I truely feel that you are very rude by making this kind of comment. This website was not intended for mud slinging. Secondly, I feel that comments like this should be kept to ones self.
neutral  LegalTrans D: Why re-translate??? Einstein wrote in German, so it is the matter of chasing up the original text, not re-translate a translation.
10 hrs
neutral  Susanne Rosenberg: TDVTrans, the last comment I made related to my first source (the first two lines of my suggestion). I never commented on your suggestion, if that's what you thought! :-)
23 hrs
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45 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +6
Zitat (?)


Explanation:
"Die Freisetzung der Atomkraft hat alles verändert außer unsere Denkweise, deshalb treiben wir auf Katastrophen zu, die nicht ihres gleichen haben."

I'm not quite sure if this is the originial wording - I've found different "qoutations", e.g.

"Die entfesselte Atomkraft hat alles verändert, nur unsere Denkweise nicht."

(which is, of course, only the first part of the sentence).

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Note added at 2002-11-19 06:44:25 (GMT)
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Found another one:

\"Die Kernspaltung hat alles verändert, nur nicht die Art unseres Denkens, und deshalb bewegen wir uns auf eine Katastrophe ohnegleichen zu.\"

(http://www.oliver-faulhaber.de/einstein/zitate.htm)

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Note added at 2002-11-19 07:14:27 (GMT)
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Correction (first \"qoute)\": This should be \"außer *unserer* Denkweise\" - I just copied and pasted withoug checking everything properly.

On the other hand, this - and the fact that the whole sentence ist not exactly what I would call excellent German - just might be a hint that perhaps this source is not the right one!


    Reference: http://www.pirna.de/personen/html/einstein__albert_.html
Susanne Rosenberg
Germany
Local time: 18:07
Native speaker of: Native in DanishDanish, Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nicole Tata: your third suggestion (Faulhaber)
3 hrs
  -> Thank you - another source for that one (but still not "official"): http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/kowalski/3/albert.htm
agree  Harry Bornemann
6 hrs
  -> Thank you :-)
agree  Iris Seifert (X): The translation with the link "oliver-faulhaber"
10 hrs
  -> Danke, Iris, das sehe ich auch so - oder eben die zweite Möglichkeit, zu der NetteSch allerdings auch die zweite Hälfte geliefert hat (siehe unten)
neutral  TDVTrans: In additon, to the comments I made to Iris Seifert, I also feel that if you honestly feel this way, maybe you should share that opinion with the rest of the non-native German translators in the world.
11 hrs
  -> Sorry, I don't quite understand your point, but I certainly didn't mean to insult anybody! I was merely trying to figure out which source is more (or less) reliable (and I never claimed to know the perfect answer!)
agree  nettranslatorde
12 hrs
  -> Thank you :-)
agree  Geneviève von Levetzow
17 hrs
  -> Danke, Geneviève
agree  Robert M Maier: Faulhaber, dochdochdoch.
2 days 10 hrs
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +6
nur um die Verwirrung noch zu vergrößern


Explanation:
und falls Du eine Literaturangabe verwenden möchtest:

"Die entfesselte Macht des Atoms hat alles verändert, nur nicht unsere Denkweise. Auf diese Weise gleiten wir einer Katastrophe ohnegleichen entgegen."
Moltmann, B.: Perspektiven der Friedensforschung, Baden-Baden 1988



    Reference: http://www.uni-muenster.de/PeaCon/arcdoce/texts/ww051.html
Annette Scheler
Germany
Local time: 18:07
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rolf Klischewski, M.A.
3 hrs
agree  Iris Seifert (X): This one is a little more poetical.
3 hrs
agree  Wolf Brosius (X): wuerde statt gleiten z.B.schlingern oder so benutzen
5 hrs
agree  nettranslatorde
5 hrs
agree  Geneviève von Levetzow
10 hrs
agree  Robert M Maier: - erstaunlicherweise ist die Münsteraner Friedensforschung offenbar die einzige Quelle aufm Netz mit dem *ganzen* Zitat...
2 days 3 hrs
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