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.
WERNHER VON BRAUNThere is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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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 is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.
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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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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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The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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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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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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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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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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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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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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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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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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