If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
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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To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
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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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Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
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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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The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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