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 BRAUNI 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.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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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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It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.
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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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The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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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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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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If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.
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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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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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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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To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
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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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