I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty — and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine.
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.


Bennington College address (1970)

Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was...

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was...

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was...

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was...