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Biology Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

9 Biology quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut’s nine witty observations turn biology into a playground of absurdity and insight. The brief lines blend humor with a subtle critique of scientific pretensions.

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Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.

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Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes.

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Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's…

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“So I guess maybe that’ll be the next step in evolution – to break clean like those first amphibians who crawled out…

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I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor…

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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer…

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“And evolution or God or whatever arranged things genetically, to keep the little families going, to cheer them up, so that they…

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People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only…

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“British astronomer Fred Hoyle said something to this effect: That believing in Darwin's theoretical mechanisms of evolution was like believing that a…

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“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.”

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“People aren't supposed to look back.”

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“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.”

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“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in…

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“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on…

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“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it”

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I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

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“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.”

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“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…

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“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that…

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“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a…

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“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent…

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Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, And our God will take things back that He to us did lend. And if,…

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“They were going back to the slaughterhouse for souvenirs of the war.”

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“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty…

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