I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Another guy came in, and he said he was quitting his job at the Research Laboratory; said anything a scientist worked on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas… — 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
