1. “Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.”
2. “Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.”
3. "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."
4. “I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.”
5. “In this modern world of ours 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. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn t it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?”
6. "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."
7. “Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.”
8. "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 better we understand the intricacies of the universe and all it harbors, the more reason we have found to marvel at the inherent design upon which it is based."
9. ”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.”
10. ”We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
