Hermann Oberth Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.