Wernher von Braun
Scientist
1912-03-23
Quotes by Wernher von Braun
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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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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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I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
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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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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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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
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Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me 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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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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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. And there is certainly no scientific reason why God cannot retain the same position in our modern world that he held before we began probing his creation with telescope and cyclotron.
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