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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.

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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Physicist
Rocket Scientist
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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun
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Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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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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