Aircraft Quote by Sheldon Whitehouse

The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works. You have…

— Boyan Slat

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

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

— Octave Chanute

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

— Bill Engvall

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people,…

— Bill Gates

There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris,…

— Burt Rutan

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks…

— Mark Kennedy

“From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built…

— Bill Bryson

I was engaged in what I believe to be the most thrilling industry in the world-aviation. My heart still leaps when I see a…

— William A. Patterson

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

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most…

— Amelia Earhart

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief…

— Freeman Dyson