Robert Goddard Quotes
20 quotes from Robert Goddard — American physicist and engineer who built and launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket..
“I feel we are doing something worthwhile. It is a wonderful feeling to realize that what we are doing today will someday take man to the moon.”
“Professor Goddard does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react... he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.”
“It looked almost magical as it rose, without any appreciably greater noise or flame, as if it said, 'I've been here long enough; I think I'll be going somewhere else, if you don't mind.'”
“The dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”
“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.”
“I was a different boy when I descended the tree from when I ascended. Existence at last seemed very purposive.”
“Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.”
“The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.”
“A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere... Professor Goddard does not know the relation of action to reaction.”
“The rocket will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.”
“Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go—and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.”
“I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.”
“Just remember: when you think all is lost, the future remains.”
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
“God pity a one-dream man.”
“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.”
“It might be well to point out that the development of the rocket has reached about the same point that aviation had reached when the Wright brothers made their first powered flight.”
“The rocket will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.”
“I have always believed that the rocket will, in time, open the universe to mankind. What we do today is but the first small step in that direction.”
“There can be no thought of finishing, for 'aiming at the stars' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.”
