Construction Quote by Simon Newcomb

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give…

— John Wilkins

To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment two types…

— Octave Chanute

There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter,…

— Grace Slick

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

— Simon Newcomb

Everybody can fly, they just need the right person to lift them up.

— Cristina Orante

The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical…

— Simon Newcomb

If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA to build…

— Ross Perot

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

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

— Calvin Coolidge

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The example of…

— Simon Newcomb

Yes, it's true, I have bought a helicopter. I really like it. I can't fly it, but I plan to get a licence one…

— Shane Filan