Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do. Kurt Vonnegut Read Quote
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth. Kurt Vonnegut Read Quote
Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. Kurt Vonnegut Read Quote
Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive. Kurt Vonnegut Read Quote
I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished. Kurt Vonnegut Read Quote
If you appear in the ‘Atlantic’ or ‘Harper’s’ or the ‘New Yorker,’ by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so. Kurt Vonnegut Read Quote
Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951. Kurt Vonnegut Read Quote
During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school. Kurt Vonnegut Read Quote
