All Wernher von Braun Quotes
- Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. Experience
- I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. Attitude
- We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. Dignity
- There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further. Business
- 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… Astronomy
- It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. Chains
- It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket. Errors
- 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… Acknowledge
- The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet. Except
- Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month. Baby
- Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department. Care
- 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… Belong
- 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… Accept
- 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… All
- 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… Candle
- 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… All
- 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… Alternative
- 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… Differently
- 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… Admire
- I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon. Been