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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun
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Wernher von Braun
Age: 65 †
Born: 1912
Born: March 23
Died: 1977
Died: June 16
Aerospace Engineer
Architect
Engineer
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Military Personnel
Non-Fiction Writer
Physicist
Rocket Scientist
Wirsitz
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun
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Gravity
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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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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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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
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The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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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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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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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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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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In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of less than three ships. . . . So it is with interplanetary exploration: it must be done on the grand scale.
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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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For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.
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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.
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Don'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.
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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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If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land 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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With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away.
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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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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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Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
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