Hermann Oberth Quotes

#1. lived his life in the middle, hovering in a space devoid

Doug Burris

#2. 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

#3. Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.

Hermann Oberth

#4. 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.

Hermann Oberth

#5. It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

Bill Gates

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

Hermann Oberth

#7. 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.

Hermann Oberth

#8. Everybody brings their personality to any position, and that's true for presidents like anyone else.

Hillary Clinton

#9. Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

Sarah Dessen

#10. Those of us who live with twisted bits like to think we can overcome them.

Eliza Crewe

#11. I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

Sandra Cisneros

#12. 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.

Hermann Oberth

#13. 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.

Hermann Oberth

#14. I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution.

Janet Reno

#15. And even if Amina didn't yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice but to try to wind itself around an empty shirt, she understood for sure that the people who said it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all were a bunch of dicks.

Mira Jacob

#16. 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.

Hermann Oberth

#17. 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.

Hermann Oberth