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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
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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Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion tries to better understand the Creator. While through science man tries to harness the forces of nature around him, through religion he tries to harness the force of nature within him.
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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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The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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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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There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.
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The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends.
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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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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
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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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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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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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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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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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