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The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.

Wernher von Braun

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Gravity Pressure Work
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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Concept Existence God Grace People Reality Remember Reveal Science
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
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Money Myself Program Promise Space
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Belief Death Existence Nature Spiritual Strength Teaching Transformation
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Children Earth Education Legacy Oneself Possession
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Fun Moon Speed Tradition
I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Greatness Impossible Learning Myself Word
One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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Expert Goodness Oneself Opinion Worth
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?
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Challenge Existence Experience God Science See Sun
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!
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Astronomy Hope Late Myself Program Space Vision Wait
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 BRAUN

Greatness Limitation Logic Military Mission Operation War
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Chance Honesty Life Man Planning Possible Presentation Science Theory Universe
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Failure Pregnant Program Theory Woman Yourself
The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Destroy Fly Force Nature Ourselves Stars
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Errors Mistake Qualification Yourself
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Astronomy Live Moon Oneself Return

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