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 BRAUNFor 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 BRAUNLooking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
WERNHER VON BRAUNTo simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
WERNHER VON BRAUNConquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
WERNHER VON BRAUNIt takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
WERNHER VON BRAUNOne good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
WERNHER VON BRAUNDon’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.
WERNHER VON BRAUNA good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
WERNHER VON BRAUNMy 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 BRAUNThe rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUNBy 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.
WERNHER VON BRAUNAll 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 BRAUNCrash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
WERNHER VON BRAUNWith our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away.
WERNHER VON BRAUNOur 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 BRAUNWe can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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