Wright Brothers

"A bicycle is a laboratory for developing the skills needed."

"The flying problem is finally solved."

"I did not have a feeling of pride."

"The only sacrifice was time."

"We stood upon the shoulders of many giants."

"The air would soon have more airplanes than roads have automobiles."

"Testing the hypothesis is more important than defending it."

"We learned more from failures than from successes."

"Control is the essence of safe flight."

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

"The public is not ready for the flying machine."

"Innovation requires dedicated focus and time away from distractions."

"We made mistakes, but we learned from them rapidly."

"The principles of flight apply to all machines."

"I believe the air age is coming soon."

"You cannot invent by committee."

"Our partnership was stronger than any business agreement."

"The smallest of our problems was the biggest we faced."

"Engineering is applied science mixed with practical thinking."

"We did not work in isolation but built on existing knowledge."

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

"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."

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

"Our flying machine is a success. More work is needed, but the age of the flying machine has dawned."

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."

"We possess some God-given imagination to invent the impossible."

"The machine has come and visitors flocked in numbers that surprised us."

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

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