Quote #19

The mastery of space is man's greatest adventure and his most inspiring undertaking. It should spur us to maximum effort. The nation which mastered all of man's earthly environment- land, sea and air- owes to its destiny the mastery of the limitless environment of space.

More from Wernher von Braun

  1. 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 it differently.
  2. The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge a…
  3. Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the heigh…
  4. The universe is hostile only when you do not know its laws. To those who know and obey, the universe is friendly.
  5. One test result is worth one thousand expert opinions.
  6. There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program- your tax-dollar will go further.
  7. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass-produced with unskilled labor.
  8. Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

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