We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNHER VON BRAUNWe can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNHER VON BRAUNI have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
WERNHER VON BRAUNMan is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.
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 BRAUNMan belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
WERNHER VON BRAUNI’m convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
WERNHER VON BRAUNScience 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 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 BRAUNIt was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUNThe rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUNThe greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends.
WERNHER VON BRAUNTo simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
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 BRAUNNature 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 BRAUNThe 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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