Wernher von Braun Quotes

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  I have learned to use the word “impossible” with the greatest caution.

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• 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 height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.

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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.

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

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

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• Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.

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

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• Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.

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Wernher von Braun (8)

Birth:	23rd March, 1912
Death:	16th June, 1977
Nationality:	American, German
Profession:	Aerospace Engineer

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