"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."
Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published on March 18, 1963, exploring and satirizing issues of science, technology, the purpose of religion, and the arms race, often through the use of morbid humor. The novel was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1964.
"There was one [conversation with Dr. Hoenikker] where he bet I couldnt tell him anything that was absolutely true. So I said to him, God is love ... He said, What is God? What is love? Baby don’t hurt me, Baby don’t hurt me, no more.’"
Cat's Cradle"[Lyman Enders] Knowles was insane, I’m almost sure – offensively so, in that he grabbed his own behind and cried, ‘Yes, yes!’ whenever he felt that hed made a point."
Cat's Cradle"It’s a small world," I observed. "When you put it in a cemetery, it is."
Cat's Cradle"Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is."
Cat's Cradle"“Sometimes I wonder if he wasn’t born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that’s the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.”"
Cat's Cradle"My second wife had left me on the grounds that I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with."
Cat's Cradle