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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.
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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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun
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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 same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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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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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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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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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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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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Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I'd like to ask you, don't hang up your dancing slippers.
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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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Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
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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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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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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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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 are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.
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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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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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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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