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
Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan. — 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
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. — 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
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
The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana… — 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
“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
