"Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing." ― Wernher von Braun Topic(s): Science More From Wernher von Braun "We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." "It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet." "For my confirmation, I didn’t get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift." More In Science "I was a science fiction junkie for a long time."― William Hurt "Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training."― Michael Shermer "The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless."― Ernst Mach