Wernher von Braun — "It is not a question of whether man will fly to the moon but when."

"We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what to do with it was a moral problem for the world, not for us."

"During my visits in the Mittelwerk, I never saw a dead man nor did I ever see a beating or a killing."

"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."

"My father was a sportsman and a hunter, and he taught me to shoot when I was very young. I was always interested in what made things go."

"A good scientist is a man with an original mind who can think straight, but who also has a practical sense of what is possible."