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.
WERNHER VON BRAUNScience 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.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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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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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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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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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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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 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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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
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We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.
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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 best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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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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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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