The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUNI 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.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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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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Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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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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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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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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Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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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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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.
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