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Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
Wernher von Braun
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Wernher von Braun
Age: 65 †
Born: 1912
Born: March 23
Died: 1977
Died: June 16
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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun
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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount of this research and development work ourselves. We just have to keep our own hands dirty to command the professional respect of the contractor personnel engaged with actual design, shop and testing work.
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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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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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There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.
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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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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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I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
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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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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.
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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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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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