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Kurt Vonnegut
(11 Nov 1922 - 11 Apr 2007)
American whose books include Slaughterhouse Five (1969), Breakfast of Champions (1973) and Hocus Pocus (1990).
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Science Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut (3)
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Through the Looking Glass. In Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain (1986), 206.
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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Player Piano (1999), 84. In Gary William Flake, The Computational Beauty of Nature (2000), 327.
Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Timequake (1997), 105.
