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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.

Wernher von Braun

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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Best Computer Man Production Skills
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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Belief Death Existence Nature Spiritual Strength Teaching Transformation
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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Doctor Help Man Medicine Preparation Science Space
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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Build Organization Practice Program Space Start Support
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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Live Population Stars Sun Thinking
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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Gravity Pressure Work
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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Different Dimension Moral Murder Science
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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Best Confirmation Gift Mom Myself
Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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Conquer Gravity Problem Universe
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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Difficult Existence Myself Science Understand Universe
Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
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Ability Himself Inspirational Man
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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Astronomy Hope Late Myself Program Space Vision Wait
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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Children Earth Education Legacy Oneself Possession
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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Errors Mistake Qualification Yourself
By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it’s entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.
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Doubt Man Moon Operation Planet Possible
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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Exception Perfection Planet Work Wrong

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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