We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNHER VON BRAUNIt will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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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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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.
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The 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.
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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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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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By 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.
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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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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.
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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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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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I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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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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The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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