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

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Hi Craig:

You can get the who text to the von Braun quote at my web-site on GR:
www.hyperarts.com/gravity/gravity.html

Look under "B" and "Braun, Wernher von"

TW

On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Craig Clark wrote:

> 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"
>