We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNHER VON BRAUNI 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.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
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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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I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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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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If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
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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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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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Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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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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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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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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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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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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