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Science Quotes by Wernher von Braun
- Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
- It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
- 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…
- The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.
- Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
- Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies…
- 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…
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- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
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- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov