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Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun (23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977) German scientist; one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States.
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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.
- Time magazine (17 February 1958)
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- Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know I'm doing.
- Variants: Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. blah
- Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.
- Development of the space station is as inevitable as the rising of the sun; man has already poked his nose into space and he is not likely to pull it back... There can be no thought of finishing, for aiming at the stars— both literally and figuratively— is the work of generations, and no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.
- Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise.
- 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.
- 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.
- I always shoot for the sky, but sometimes I hit London.
- 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.
- I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
- Variant: Always use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
- It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
- On the rocket-ship. Variant: It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
- Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass-produced with unskilled labor.
- Variant: The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
- One test result is worth one thousand expert opinions.
- Our sun is one of 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 things in that enormous immensity.
- 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.
- The mastery of space is man’s greatest adventure and his most inspiring undertaking. It should spur us to maximum effort. The nation which mastered all of man’s earthly environment— land, sea and air— owes to its destiny the mastery of the limitless environment of space.
- 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.
- The universe is hostile only when you do not know its laws. To those who know and obey, the universe is friendly.
- There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program— your tax-dollar will go further.
- Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- With every new answer unfolded, science has consistently discovered at least three new questions.
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