He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci] — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Gliders, sailplanes, they are wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. — Wilbur Wright Copy Share Image
Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible? — Joseph LeConte Copy Share Image
There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible… — George W. Melville Copy Share Image
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It is apparent to me that the possibilities of the aeroplane, which two or three years ago were thought to hold the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
“The existence of birds demonstrated that heavier-than-air flight was physically possible and prompted efforts to build flying machines. Yet the first functioning… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children use to play with.… — Henri Coanda Copy Share Image
One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly.… — Joseph LeConte Copy Share Image
To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment… — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
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![“The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.” quote by Lawrence Hargrave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ee8/lawrence-hargrave-31692_american-workers_the-people-of-sydney-who-can-speak-of-my_1179795.jpg)
![“One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly. Two: The animal machine is far more effective than any we can hope to make. Three: The weight of any machine constructed for flying, including fuel and engineer, cannot be less than three…” quote by Joseph LeConte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/296/joseph-leconte-73855_animal_one-there-is-a-low-limit-of-weight-of-ab_585346.jpg)
