The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
“Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” — Wernher Von Braun Copy Share Image
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer,… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness,… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity,… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
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… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
Although I know of no reference to Christ ever commenting on scientific work, I do know that He said, "Ye shall know the truth,… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look at our… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion tries to… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
“Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.” — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share
“It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open… — Wernher Von Braun Copy Share
