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 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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Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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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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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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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 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.
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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
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Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.
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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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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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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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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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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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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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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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