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• Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
• I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
• 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.
• For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a…
• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
• It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
• I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence…
• 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.
• Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well…

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