40+ Wernher von Braun Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

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 BRAUN

Live Population Stars Sun Thinking
A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Dirty Fast Goodness Hands
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?
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Challenge Existence Experience God Science See Sun
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Children Earth Education Legacy Oneself Possession
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Belief Death Existence Nature Spiritual Strength Teaching Transformation
For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Creation Design Ideas Law Necessary Order Purpose Universe
Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Doctor Help Man Medicine Preparation Science Space
I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Greatness Impossible Learning Myself Word
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Gravity Pressure Work
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Freedom Gravity Man Planet
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Best Confirmation Gift Mom Myself
Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Ability Himself Inspirational Man
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Errors Mistake Qualification Yourself
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Concept Existence God Grace People Reality Remember Reveal Science

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