All 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 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.
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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 same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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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.
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Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
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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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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
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Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn’t.
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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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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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Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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For my confirmation, I didn’t get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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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.
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