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.
WERNHER VON BRAUNThe best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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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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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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Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
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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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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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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
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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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I’m convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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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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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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