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Quote by Wernher von Braun

“I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.”

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German rocket scientist known as the 'Father of Rocketry'. Wernher von Braun worked for Nazi Germany during World War II and continued his rocket research in the United States after the war, making significant contributions to human space exploration. more

“It is clear that we cannot go up another two orders of magnitude as we have climbed the last five. If we did, we should have two scientists for every man, woman, child, and dog in the population, and we should spend on them twice as much money as we had. Scientific doomsday is therefore less than a century distant.”

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Author:Derek J. de Solla Price

“It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.”

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Book:The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children

Source: The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children

“Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.”

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Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.”

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Author:H. Bentley Glass

“Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.”

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Author:G. Stanley Hall

“Old age is but a second childhood.”

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