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 BRAUNIt will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
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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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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.
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Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.
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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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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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For my confirmation, I didn’t get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
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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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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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The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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