The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUNMan is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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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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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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Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
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I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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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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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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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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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?
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To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
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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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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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Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
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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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If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.
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