Friendship Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“There was a certain scientific practicability even in his love-making, and it here came out excellently. ”

— Thomas Hardy

“Vulnerable, like all men, to the temptations of arrogance, of which intellectual pride is the worst, he [ the scientist ] must nevertheless remain…

— Louis de Broglie

“When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking for such a job. Now he…

— China Miéville

“Even in his greatest dedication to science he had never managed to forget that people's goodness and beauty come from what they believe, not…

— Robert Musil

“At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself up-to-date, in layman's terms, with physics generally.…

— Ian McEwan

“He had a natural appetite for the wonders of the Universe. He wanted to know about science. It’s just that all the science had…

— Carl Sagan

“A thought that had been in the archives of his mind for many months came sharply into relief: of all human beings alive, the…

— Philip Wylie

“He’d have been a little bit happier if there’d been a demon or some sort of magic. Something simple and understandable. He didn’t like…

— Terry Pratchett

“I’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

“He was allying himself to science, for what was science but the absence of prejudice backed by the presence of money? His life would…

— Henry James

“By and large, people who choose to go into science are not greatly interested in psychological problems... He liked the exactness of science, and…

— Brenda Maddox