Quotes by Aerospace Engineers

Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws and obey them space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
Wernher von Braun
The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.
Wernher von Braun
I don't believe love or sexual pleasure is a zero-sum game.
A.V. Roe
Gravity is a myth. In reality the earth sucks.
A.V. Roe
And her lips: so inviting, bathed in shimmering wet, dark red gloss. They were meant for only two things, kissing and making love to your cock.
A.V. Roe
[The purpose of flight research] is to separate the real from the imagined problems and to make known the overlooked and the unexpected.
Hugh L. Dryden
The knowledge that life is finite was always in the back of my mind.
A.V. Roe
It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
Wernher von Braun
Pardon me Mam,I'm new in town, could you please show me the way to your house?
Frank Calvin Mann
In future utopia will need to hurry to keep up with reality.
Wernher von Braun
Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.
Gene Kranz
I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
Wernher von Braun
Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.
Gene Kranz
I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
Wernher von Braun
To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort
Gene Kranz
Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.
Werner Von Braun
All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.
Wernher von Braun