I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
WERNHER VON BRAUN
WERNHER VON BRAUN
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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.
Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun 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.
Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun 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 BraunWernher von Braun 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 BraunWernher von Braun 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 BraunWernher von Braun I’m convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun 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.
Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun 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.
Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun 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.
Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving across their fields of vision with menacing speed. At that point it will be too late!
Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun 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.
Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
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