Von Braun quote (was Re: What the gyros do)

[Craig Clark]

jp4321 at soho.ios.com (jporter) asks:

> But what then of von Braun's "quote" which opens GR?
> 
>         Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation.
>         Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me
>         strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual exisitence
>         after death.

Perhaps as a preliminary question to the GR of _GR_, I've often wondered if 
this is a "real" quote, i.e. a genuine citation from Von Braun. I have my doubts
about Merian Cooper's "You will have the tallest, darkest leading man in 
Hollywood" and Richard M. Nixon's "What?". Dorothy to Toto is, shall we say,
a matter of public record. But what about the other epigrammatic quotes? Any
ideas, sources?


 
Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"