For what would have been Kurt Vonnegut’s 100th birthday, Science spoke to literary scholars, philosophers of science, and political theorists about the messages he left for the scientific community—and why the famed author is more relevant than ever.
When American novelist Kurt Vonnegut addressed the Bennington College class of 1970—1 year after publishing his best-selling novel,“I fully expected that by the time I was 21, some scientist … would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty and sold it to magazine,” he said. “What actually happened … was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.”
Kurt Vonnegut took inspiration from the cloud-seeding experiments conducted by his brother and Irving Langmuir at General Electric in the 1940s.As a philosopher, Vonnegut was no stranger to science. Under pressure from his brother, a, he studied biochemistry at Cornell University in the 1940s before dropping out and enlisting in the Army during World War II.
The deep distrust that haunts Vonnegut’s stories stemmed in part from his own traumatic experiences with products of modern science. His mother overdosed on sleeping pills in 1944. Months later, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the firebombing of Dresden that killed roughly 25,000 people. “So it goes,” as he said.
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