Dr Robert H Goddard Quotes

There can be no thought of finishing, for aiming at the stars, both literally and figuratively, is the work of generations, but no matter how much progress one makes there is always the thrill of just beginning. - Dr Robert H Goddard

The speculation about it is interesting but the impossibility of ever doing it is so certain that it is not practically useful. You have written well and clearly, but not helpfully to science as I see it. - Dr Robert H Goddard

The dream would not down...for even though I reasoned with myself that the thing was impossible, there was something inside which simply would not stop working. - Dr Robert H Goddard

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. - Dr Robert H Goddard

On the afternoon of October 19, 1899, I climbed a tall cherry tree and, armed with a saw which I still have, and a hatchet, started to trim the dead limbs from the cherry tree. It was one of the quiet, colorful afternoons of sheer beauty which we have in October in New England, and as I looked towards the fields at the east, I imagined how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars. I was a different boy when I descended the tree from when I ascended for existence at last seemed very purposive. - Dr Robert H Goddard

Just remember, when you think all is lost, the future remains. - Dr Robert H Goddard

It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments Most work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated. - Dr Robert H Goddard

I feel we are going to enter an era comparable in its progress to that in which the airplane advanced... Its just a matter of imagination how far we go with rockets and jet planes...I think its fair to say you havent seen anything yet. - Dr Robert H Goddard

Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace. - Dr Robert H Goddard

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