Wernher von Braun

The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go—and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

The importance of the space program, I believe, is that it is accelerating the evolution of man's knowledge of the universe in which he lives.

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.

Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know I'm doing.

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.

The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.

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.

The universe does not exist for our benefit. It is just there.

We are all astronauts on the spaceship Earth.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

The one and only reason we have not flown to the moon is a simple one: we did not have the money.

The farther we probe into space, the greater my faith.

The National Space Program is an evolutionary process. It did not start with Sputnik, it will not end with the lunar landing.

Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters.

In our modern world, many people seem to think that science has somehow made such 'religious' ideas as immortality untimely or old-fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics.

The method of science is logical and rational; the method of the humanities is one of imagination and intuition. Both are essential to human progress.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

There is no such thing as an infallible experiment. There is only an experiment that has not yet failed.