अंतरिक्ष यात्रा सरासर बकवास है। मुझे नहीं लगता कि कभी कोई इस काम के लिए पर्याप्त धन जुटा पाएगा। . . . यह सब एक कोरा मज़ाक है।
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.
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.
[अंतरिक्ष में रॉकेट भेजने की] पूरी प्रक्रिया... इतनी बुनियादी और जटिल समस्याओं से घिरी हुई है कि हमें इस विचार कोरी कल्पना मानकर खारिज करना पड़ता है, भले ही लेखक पूर्वाग्रहों को छोड़ने और हवा से भारी चीज़ों के उड़ सकने की असंभव सी लगने वाली बात को याद दिलाने पर कितना भी जोर क्यों न दे। इस तरह की दलीलें अक्सर गुमराह करने वाली होती हैं और इस मामले में भी हमारा यही मानना है।
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.
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.