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The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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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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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Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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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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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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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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In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of less than three ships. . . . So it is with interplanetary exploration: it must be done on the grand scale.
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There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.
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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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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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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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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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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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Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.
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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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Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.
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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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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.
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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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