Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be." --"Mr. Z” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“science never cheered up anyone. the human situation is just too awful.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The trouble with the world is that people are still superstitious instead of scientific. If everybody would study science more, there wouldn't… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My ancestors were all Freethinkers, formerly Catholics. It was science and Darwin, in particular, that made them decide, as educated people, which… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“This country," said Eliot, "had tremendous research projects devoted to fighting odors. They were supported by individual contributions given to mothers who… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I became a so-called science fiction writer when someone decreed that I was a science fiction writer. I did not want to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It was all here for me, just as it has all been here for you, the best and the worst of Western… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Before 1939, it was the accepted belief of scientists that it was theoretically possible to release atomic energy. But nobody knew any… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He said he hoped a lot of us would have careers in science,' she said. She didn't see anything funny in that.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He said science was going to discover the basic secret of life some day,' the bartender put in. He scratched his head… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Dr. Hoenikker used to say that any scientist who couldn't explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a charlatan. -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The trouble with the world was,” she continued hesitatingly, “that people were still superstitious instead of scientific. He said if everybody would… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
