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

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

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn't keep his hands dirty.

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

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

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

Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.

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

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

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

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.

The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

Man belongs wherever he wants to go.

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

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

It was very successful, but it fell 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.

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

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

One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.

In future utopia will need to hurry to keep up with reality.

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