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• If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

  Wernher von Braun

  Moon, Land, Modern Life

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Stars, Thinking, Would Be

  1960 In the NewYork Times, 29 Apr.

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• The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back to earth for more than two and a half years. The difficulties of a trip to mars are formidable. . . . What curious information will these first explorers carry back from Mars? Nobody knows-and its extremely doubtful that anyone now living will ever know. All that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made . . . someday.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Home, Men

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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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Years, Space, Pay

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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?

  Wernher von Braun

  God, Real, Airplane

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

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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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Inspirational, Death, Spiritual

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

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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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Children, Taken, Legacy

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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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Order, Law

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

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• I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

  Wernher von Braun

  Children, Science, Moon

  Taped TV interview, broadcast on WMAL, Washington (January 7, 1972), as reported in "Birth of Child on Moon Foreseen by von Braun", New York Times (p. 14), January 7, 1972.

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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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Baby, Science, Nine

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• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Men, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Mother, Boys, Technology

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• There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

  Wernher von Braun

  Business, Science, Space

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, May 1961

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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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Origin Of Life, Design

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

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• Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

  Wernher von Braun

  Men, Want

  Time, February 17, 1958.

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• It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.

  Wernher von Braun

  Life, Honesty, Science

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

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• Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.

  Wernher von Braun

  Men, Space, Doctors

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• Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.

  Wernher von Braun

  Simple, Vision, Utopian

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• There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Flying, Grandfather

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• The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.

  Wernher von Braun

  Military, War, Theatre

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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

  Wernher von Braun

  Moon, Astronaut, Knows

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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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Space Flight, Challenges

  Wernher Von Braun (1969). “Space Frontier”

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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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Believe, Space

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• Get me a broom. I'll sweep my own office.

  Wernher von Braun

  Office, Brooms, My Own

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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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Heaven, Three, Mars

  Wernher Von Braun (1991). “The Mars Project”, p.2, University of Illinois Press

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