Article December 3, 1966 Issue

Signs of the Times

Wernher von Braun

Houston Chronicle

Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA in the Houston Chronicle Houston, Texas [© 1966 North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Reprinted by permission.]

To say that science's only purpose is trying to discover physical laws is no longer an adequate explanation of science's goal; for the concept of science itself has grown.

By his willingness to change his model or his concepts, the scientist is simply admitting that he makes no claim to possessing ultimate truth. Scientific laws do not control reality but merely try to explain it; therefore, the laws may be changed when new knowledge is revealed.

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