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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 find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.
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Difficult Existence Myself Science Understand Universe
It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.
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Chance Honesty Life Man Planning Possible Presentation Science Theory Universe
Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
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Ability Himself Inspirational Man
All one can really leave one’s children is what’s inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.
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Children Earth Education Legacy Oneself Possession
To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
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Concept God Science Simplicity Violent
Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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Acievement Simplicity Vision
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.
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Different Dimension Moral Murder Science
Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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Conquer Gravity Problem Universe
The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends.
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Greatness Knowledge Pay Price Space Travel
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
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Money Myself Program Promise Space
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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Concept Existence God Grace People Reality Remember Reveal Science
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.
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Dance Earth Friendship Moon Myself Yourself
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
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Failure Pregnant Program Theory Woman Yourself
The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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Best Computer Man Production Skills
I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.
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Believe Forever Immortal Life Science Soul
With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away.
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Beyond Challenge Knowledge Present Reach Solution

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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