It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUNMan belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
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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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Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
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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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The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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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.
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Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
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I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering problems but rather the limits of the human frame that will make the final decision as to whether manned space flight will eventually become a reality.
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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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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
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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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I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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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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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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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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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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My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I’d like to ask you, don’t hang up your dancing slippers.
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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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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.
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Don’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.
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The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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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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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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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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