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.
WERNHER VON BRAUNTo simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
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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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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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 will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this 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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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
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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 rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn’t.
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Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.
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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 same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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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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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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