Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
WERNHER VON BRAUNMy 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.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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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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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn’t.
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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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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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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
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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’m convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
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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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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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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.
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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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I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving across their fields of vision with menacing speed. At that point it will be too late!
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