Richard Van Der Riet Woolley Quotes & Sayings

The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] ... presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished. An analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case. — Richard Van Der Riet Woolley

Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing ... It is all rather rot. — Richard Van Der Riet Woolley