Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

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Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Wernher von Braun

1973

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1973

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Von Braun, Werner. Quoted in A Random Walk in Science, edited by Eric Mendoza. Institute of Physics Publishing, 1973. Originally stated during an interview with The New York Times, 16 Dec. 1957.

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