Orville Wright |
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"If birds can glide for long periods of time, then...why can't I?"
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"If we worked on the assumption that
what is
accepted as true really is true,
then there would be no hope for advance."
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"Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets
have been preserved for so many years
just so we could discover them!"
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"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris...
[because] no known motor can run at the requisite
speed for four days without stopping."
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"The airplane stays up because it doesn't have time to fall."
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"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us
by our
ancestors who in their grueling travels
across trackless
lands
in prehistoric times,
looked enviously on the birds
soaring
freely
through space,
at full speed above all
obstacles,
on the infinite highway of the air."
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"We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment
where there was always much encouragement to children
to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate whatever aroused curiosity." |
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