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• All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

  Wernher von Braun

  Children, Taken, Legacy

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• By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Moon, Men

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• 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 extremely doubtful that anyone now living will ever know. All that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made . . . someday.

  Wernher von Braun

  Future, Home, Men

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• My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I'd like to ask you, don't hang up your dancing slippers.

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  Future, Moon, Dancing

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• 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 of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Order, Law

  Letter to California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.

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• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Men, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Mother, Boys, Technology

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• We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

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  Sarcastic, Work, Science

  "On Bureaucracy". "Chicago Sun-Times" Newspaper, July 10, 1958.

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• 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 the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.

  Wernher von Braun

  Lying, Reality, Men

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• I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

  Wernher von Braun

  Children, Science, Moon

  Taped TV interview, broadcast on WMAL, Washington (January 7, 1972), as reported in "Birth of Child on Moon Foreseen by von Braun", New York Times (p. 14), January 7, 1972.

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• Development of the space station is as inevitable as the rising of the sun; man has already poked his nose into space and he is not likely to pull it back . . . . There can be no thought of finishing, for aiming at the stars-both literally and figuratively-is the work of generations, and no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.

  Wernher von Braun

  Stars, Future, Men

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• The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends.

  Wernher von Braun

  Years, Space, Pay

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• 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 as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Origin Of Life, Design

  Wernher Von Braun (2007). “The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology”, Collectors Guide Pub

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• 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 classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.

  Wernher von Braun

  Life, Honesty, Science

  Letter to California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.

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• Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.

  Wernher von Braun

  Men, Space, Doctors

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• There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

  Wernher von Braun

  Business, Science, Space

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, May 1961

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• Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.

  Wernher von Braun

  Simple, Vision, Utopian

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• There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.

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  Future, Flying, Grandfather

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• Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

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  Men, Want

  Time, February 17, 1958.

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• The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.

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  Military, War, Theatre

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• Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't

  Wernher von Braun

  Moon, Astronaut, Knows

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• With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away.

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  Future, Space Flight, Challenges

  Wernher Von Braun (1969). “Space Frontier”

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• If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.

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  Future, Believe, Space

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• Get me a broom. I'll sweep my own office.

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  Office, Brooms, My Own

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• In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of less than three ships. . . . So it is with interplanetary exploration: it must be done on the grand scale.

  Wernher von Braun

  Heaven, Three, Mars

  Wernher Von Braun (1991). “The Mars Project”, p.2, University of Illinois Press

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