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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Wernher von Braun

I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Greatness Impossible Learning Myself Word
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Failure Pregnant Program Theory Woman Yourself
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Himself Man Path Travel
Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Basic Myself Research
It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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Myself Planet Success Wrong
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Money Myself Program Promise Space
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
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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Different Dimension Moral Murder Science
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Exception Perfection Planet Work Wrong
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Greatness Knowledge Pay Price Space Travel
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Chance Honesty Life Man Planning Possible Presentation Science Theory Universe
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
The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Best Computer Man Production Skills
If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Build Organization Practice Program Space Start Support
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Errors Mistake Qualification Yourself
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Believe Forever Immortal Life Science Soul

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