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Flight Quotes by Simon Newcomb
- Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The example of the…
- Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.
- Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force. Even…
- Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
- 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…
- Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
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