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Science Quotes by Bill Watterson (4 quotes)
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
— Bill Watterson
Dialog by Calvin (fictional character) in syndicated newspaper comic strip Calvin and Hobbes (18 Feb 1991).
Isn’t it weird how scientists can imagine all the matter of the universe exploding out of a dot smaller than the head of a pin, but they can’t come up with a more evocative name for it than “The Big Bang”? … [I’d call it] “The Horrendous Space KABLOOUIE!”
— Bill Watterson
Dialog by Calvin (fictional character) in syndicated newspaper comic strip Calvin and Hobbes (21 Jun 1992).
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
— Bill Watterson
Dialog by Calvin (fictional character) in syndicated newspaper comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Collected in Scientific Progress Goes “Boink!” (1991), 29.
That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
— Bill Watterson
Dialog by Calvin (fictional character) in syndicated newspaper comic strip Calvin and Hobbes (21 Jun 1992).
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
