Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.
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In the United States, I am often addressed as a doctor. I should like to point out, however, that I am not such and shall never think of becoming one.Hermann Oberth
I refrained from writing another one, thinking to myself: Never mind, I will prove that I am able to become a greater scientist than some of you, even without the title of doctor.
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If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.
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To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.
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The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.
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