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All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint.

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As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance…
We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.
One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so…
My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the…
As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a…
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The…
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

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All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint. — Simon Newcomb
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