1906 Quote by Israelmore Ayivor

“On December 17, 1903, on a windy North Carolina beach for just shy of one hundred seconds, the Wright brothers demonstrated that a heavier-than-air,…

— Lawrence Lessig

“If I were giving a young man advice as to how he might succeed in life, I would say to him, pick out a…

— David McCullough

“If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.” —ORVILLE…

— Pam Grout

When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

In 1903 the Wright brothers invented airplanes, because in 1902 they took a road trip across the country with their family.

— Bill Engvall

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

— Wilbur Wright

“And this was the greatest gift that aviation could ever give me; not the sense of freedom but the sense of permanence, coupling, of…

— Melanie Benjamin

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent…

— Lawrence Hargrave

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

— Octave Chanute

More than 120 years ago, the Wright brothers pioneered their aviation work and built the world's first airplane in Dayton. I'm proud to support…

— Jon Husted

Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross…

— Gordon Bethune

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

— Otto Lilienthal