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“One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.”
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“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.”
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“Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.”
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“The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”
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“I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.”
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“The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.”
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“I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.”
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“You can’t have a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. ”
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“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.”
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“Our sun is one of a 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 thing in that enormous immensity.”
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“Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.”
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“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.”
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“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
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“Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death.”
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“One test result is the worth one-thousand expert opinions.”
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“And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there [space]. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.”
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“We've got gravity licked but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
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“Nature does not know extinction, only transformation”
― Classic Science Fiction
― Classic Science Fiction
“Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.”
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“I have learned to use the world ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.”
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“Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.”
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“In Zukunft wird sich die Utopie beeilen müssen, wenn sie die Realität einholen will.”
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“Always use the word "impossible" with the greatest of caution.”
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“Natura nu cunoaște dispariția. Ea cunoaște doar transformarea. Tot ce m-a învățat știința și mă învață în continuare îmi întărește credința în perpetuarea existenței noastre spirituale după moarte.”
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“In future utopia will need to hurry to keep up with reality.”
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“You can’t have a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant”
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“Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.”
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“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
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“Your wife knew when she married you that you were also married to the sky, as men were married to the sea in bygone years. She knows that she'll have to put up with privations and long absences as long as you're any real good to her or to the world.”
― The Mars Project
― The Mars Project
“It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.”
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