It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
WERNHER VON BRAUNIt takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
WERNHER VON BRAUNMy 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?
WERNHER VON BRAUNThe 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 BRAUNBasic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
WERNHER VON BRAUNIf 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 BRAUNThe best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
WERNHER VON BRAUNAll 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.
WERNHER VON BRAUNThere is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
WERNHER VON BRAUNTo simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
WERNHER VON BRAUNThe 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.
WERNHER VON BRAUNScience 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 BRAUNIf we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
WERNHER VON BRAUNI 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 BRAUNThe rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUNWe 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.
WERNHER VON BRAUNThe same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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