Wernher von Braun Quotes

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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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  Men, Trying, Creation

  Wernher Von Braun (2007). “The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology”, Collectors Guide Pub

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  My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

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  God, Science, Light

  Letter to the California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.

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• I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  "At My Best: 365 Meditations For The Physical, Spiritual, And Emotional Well-Being". Book by Anonymous (p. 284), October 14, 2009.

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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, Knives, Differences

  "Futurehype: The Myths of Technology Change". Book by Robert B. Seidensticker, 2009.

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• It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

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  Failure, Errors, Rockets

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• In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?

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  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Thus I am certain that, were He among us today, Christ would encourage scientific research as modern man's most noble striving to comprehend and admire His Father's handiwork. The universe as revealed through scientific inquiry is the living witness that God has indeed been at work.

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  Father, Men, Atheism

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• It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

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  Successful, Planets

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  Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

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  Wisdom, Witty, Humorous

  "Work, Society, and Culture". The New York Times, December 16, 1957.

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• The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

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  Technology, Men, Funny Work

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• The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

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  Science, Rockets, Planets

  "Apollo in Perspective : Spaceflight Then and Now". Book by Jonathan Allday, 1999.

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• One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.

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  Experts, Tests, Opinion

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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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  Objectivity, Concepts

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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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  Men, Space, Want

  TIME Magazine, February 17, 1958.

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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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  Two, Tape, Red

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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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  Believe, Science, Soul

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• In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible... remains in every way an up-to-date book. Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the Moon also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for evil. The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral law of God.

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  Bible, Christian, Book

  "Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts & Funny Sayings". Book by Bob Phillips, 1993.

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• A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.

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  Dirty, Hands, Stale

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• Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him?

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  God, Real, Airplane

  Letter to California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.

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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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  Future, Moon, Men

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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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  Mother, Boys, Technology

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• For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.

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  Science, Order, Law

  Letter to California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.

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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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  Children, Taken, Legacy

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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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  Inspirational, Death, Spiritual

  Wernher Von Braun (2007). “The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology”, Collectors Guide Pub

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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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  Stars, Thinking, Would Be

  1960 In the NewYork Times, 29 Apr.

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