Quotes by Orville Wright

"In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power."

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

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"With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe."

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"The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall."

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