We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNHER VON BRAUNI 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!
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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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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The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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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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I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering problems but rather the limits of the human frame that will make the final decision as to whether manned space flight will eventually become a reality.
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The 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.
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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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I’m convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
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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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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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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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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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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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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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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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