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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Wernher von Braun

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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Belief Death Existence Nature Spiritual Strength Teaching Transformation
With 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.
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Beyond Challenge Knowledge Present Reach Solution
To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
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Concept God Science Simplicity Violent
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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Exception Perfection Planet Work Wrong
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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Believe Forever Immortal Life Science Soul
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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Doctor Help Man Medicine Preparation Science Space
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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Freedom Gravity Man Planet
One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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Expert Goodness Oneself Opinion Worth
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
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Fun Moon Speed Tradition
We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.
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Concept Existence God Grace People Reality Remember Reveal Science
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
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Money Myself Program Promise Space
The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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Destroy Fly Force Nature Ourselves Stars
I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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Greatness Impossible Learning Myself Word
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.
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Build Organization Practice Program Space Start Support
Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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Acievement Simplicity Vision
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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Chance Honesty Life Man Planning Possible Presentation Science Theory Universe

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