Hermann Oberth Quotes

#1. 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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#2. It is my conclusion that UFOs do exist, are very real, and are spaceships from another or more than one solar system. They are possibly manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race carrying out long-range scientific investigations of our earth for centuries.

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#3. 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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#4. Despite the immense distance between our own solar system (including the earth) and the nearest other solar systems, a journey from one system to another is theoretically possible, once an unlimited source of power is developed.

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#5. We cannot take credit for our record avancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been helped, and we have been helped by the people of other worlds.

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#6. The rockets ... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

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#7. This is the goal: 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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#8. 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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#9. 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