Kurt Vonnegut Quotes about Science

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

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

Kurt Vonnegut

Science, Awful, Situation

Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.98, Penguin

Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.

Kurt Vonnegut

Science, Space, Progress

The Sirens of Titan epigraph (1959)

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

Kurt Vonnegut

Science, Sea, Space

Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.1, Dial Press