Wright Brothers

"If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."

"The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility."

"More than anything else the sensation is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost."

"The only way to invent in aeronautics is by actual work."

"No bird soars in a calm."

"The present age is deluged with printed stuff that has nothing to do with human culture."

"We could hardly believe that we had lived long enough to see the day when flying was an everyday happening."

"Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved so carefully century after century, so that we should discover them all at once?"

"The desire to fly is an idea that will not down, of the hundreds who believe they are fitted to navigate the air."

"I do not think I can learn much more by listening to Lilienthal."

"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."

"The development of an intelligence devoted to the investigation of physical laws requires accumulated facts, patience, and time."

"Success in dealing with practical problems comes generally to those who can see them."

"To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything."

"We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always much encouragement to intellectual effort."

"I am an enthusiast, but not a crank."

"The airplane has added a new terror to war."

"Everybody recognizes that the present commercial and socially organization of society is rotted through and through."

"The path of progress is barred by a hundred men appointed to guard it."

"Living isn't about finding yourself. Living is about creating yourself."

"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years."

"Of all the inventions of the human mind, none is so difficult to improve upon as the flying machine."

"The only material that matters in any machine is the man at the helm."

"The most eloquent eulogy to progress would be a success in flying."

"I understand a fury in your words, but not the words themselves."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"Prayer is the key to all doors."

"The work was harder than we expected, but we learned much."

"I wish to state clearly that this airplane was designed and built by my brother and myself working together."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."