Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
WERNHER VON BRAUNDon’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.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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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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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.
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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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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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The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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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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Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
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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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My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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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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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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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
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