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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.

Wernher von Braun

The 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.
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Greatness Limitation Logic Military Mission Operation War
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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Best Confirmation Gift Mom Myself
My 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?
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Challenge Existence Experience God Science See Sun
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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Exception Perfection Planet Work Wrong
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
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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Gravity Pressure Work
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
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
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
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.
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Children Earth Education Legacy Oneself Possession
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.
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Different Dimension Moral Murder Science
I’m convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
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Born Children Moon Myself
I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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Greatness Impossible Learning Myself Word
Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
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Ability Himself Inspirational Man
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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Failure Pregnant Program Theory Woman Yourself
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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Errors Mistake Qualification Yourself

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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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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