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We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.

Wernher von Braun

I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Greatness Impossible Learning Myself Word
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Errors Mistake Qualification Yourself
For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Creation Design Ideas Law Necessary Order Purpose Universe
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Challenge Existence Experience God Science See Sun
The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Greatness Limitation Logic Military Mission Operation War
A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Dirty Fast Goodness Hands
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Belief Death Existence Nature Spiritual Strength Teaching Transformation
Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Acievement Simplicity Vision
To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Concept God Science Simplicity Violent
My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I’d like to ask you, don’t hang up your dancing slippers.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Dance Earth Friendship Moon Myself Yourself
I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering problems but rather the limits of the human frame that will make the final decision as to whether manned space flight will eventually become a reality.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Believe Decision Frame Human Limitation Medicine Myself Problem Reality Time
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Different Dimension Moral Murder Science
Don’t tell me that man doesn’t belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Himself Man Path Travel
One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Expert Goodness Oneself Opinion Worth
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Exception Perfection Planet Work Wrong
The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Destroy Fly Force Nature Ourselves Stars

We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.

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We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.

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