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Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.

Wernher von Braun

Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Ability Himself Inspirational Man
To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Concept God Science Simplicity Violent
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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Errors Mistake Qualification Yourself
A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
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Dirty Fast Goodness Hands
Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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Acievement Simplicity Vision
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 have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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Greatness Impossible Learning Myself Word
Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.
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Doctor Help Man Medicine Preparation Science Space
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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Freedom Gravity Man Planet
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 BRAUN

Dance Earth Friendship Moon Myself Yourself
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
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
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 BRAUN

Difficult Existence Myself Science Understand Universe
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Astronomy Live Moon Oneself Return
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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Live Population Stars Sun Thinking
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?
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Challenge Existence Experience God Science See Sun

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