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 BRAUNFor me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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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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Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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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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If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
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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!
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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.
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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.
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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
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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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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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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
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Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
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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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To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
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