Science Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Science is magic that works.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.

— Kurt Vonnegut

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“science never cheered up anyone. the human situation is just too awful.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be." --"Mr. Z”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

“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

“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

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

“I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

“He alienated his friends in the sciences by thanking them extravagantly for scientific advances he had read about in the recent newspapers…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some…

— Kurt Vonnegut

After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It was all here for me, just as it has all been here for you, the best and the worst of Western…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

“This country," said Eliot, "had tremendous research projects devoted to fighting odors. They were supported by individual contributions given to mothers who…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He said science was going to discover the basic secret of life some day,' the bartender put in. He scratched his head…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live rationally and if…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Before 1939, it was the accepted belief of scientists that it was theoretically possible to release atomic energy. But nobody knew any…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The trouble with the world was,” she continued hesitatingly, “that people were still superstitious instead of scientific. He said if everybody would…

— Kurt Vonnegut