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There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.
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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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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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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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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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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Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't
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I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
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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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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
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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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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.
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