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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
Wernher von Braun
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Wernher von Braun
Age: 65 †
Born: 1912
Born: March 23
Died: 1977
Died: June 16
Aerospace Engineer
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Rocket Scientist
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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun
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I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.
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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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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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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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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 find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.
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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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If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
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