Civilization Quote by Daniel Quinn

We did learn how to fly planes, which is pretty wild.

— Monica Barbaro

Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design…

— Burt Rutan

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.

— Otto Lilienthal

“The existence of birds demonstrated that heavier-than-air flight was physically possible and prompted efforts to build flying machines. Yet the first functioning airplanes did…

— Nick Bostrom

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical…

— Chris Carter

The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have…

— Charles Lindbergh

Pilots are tricky because there are so many things you have to accomplish.

— Hiro Murai

“Learning comes from failure. Trial and error is how you improve.”

— Stijants

I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built…

— Mark Zuckerberg

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

— Simon Newcomb

What is it in fact, this learning to fly? To be precise, it is 'to learn NOT to fly wrong.' To learn to become…

— Henri Mignet