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Airplane Quotes by Simon Newcomb
- Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
- Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed…
- The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine…
- The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in like…
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- I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. — George Cayley
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