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 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 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… — 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 Image
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… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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… — 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 Image
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 Image
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket. — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
