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.
WERNHER VON BRAUNLooking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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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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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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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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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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With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away.
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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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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 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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Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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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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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 rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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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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To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
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