Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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’m convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
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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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By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it’s entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.
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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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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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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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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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I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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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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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 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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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 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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Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
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