Article August 17, 1963 Issue

Signs of the Times

Wernher von Braun

The American Weekly

Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA in The American Weekly New York, New York

As we learn more and more about nature, we become more deeply impressed and humbled by its orderliness and unerring perfection. Our expanding knowledge of the laws of the universe have enabled us to send men out of their natural environment into the strange new environment of space, and return them safely to earth.... Manned space flight is an amazing achievement. But it has opened for us thus far only a tiny door for viewing the awesome reaches of space....

Finite man cannot comprehend an omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, and infinite God. Any effort to visualize God to reduce him to our comprehension, to describe him in our language, beggars his greatness.

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