Air Quote by John Wilkins

First, by the figurations of art there be made instruments of navigation without men to row them, as great ships to brooke the sea,…

— Roger Bacon

It is entirely impossible for man to rise into the air and float there. For this you would need wings of tremendous dimensions and…

— Jerome Lalande

The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.…

— William Henry Pickering

The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting.…

— Harriet Quimby

I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so contrived…

— Ada Lovelace

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

— Joseph Addison

I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much so, that…

— George Cayley

Construction of an aerial vehicle which can carry even a single man . . . requires the discovery of some new metal or force.…

— Simon Newcomb

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

— Toni Morrison

Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus,…

— Jules Verne

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different…

— Samuel Butler

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.

— Picabo Street