Bird Quote by Simon Newcomb

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

— Bertrand Piccard

The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

— Wilson Greatbatch

Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They…

— David Attenborough

It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird.

— Marcus Fischer

“Birds have done great jobs for the progression of humanity: They kept alive our love for freedom and they insistently motivated us to reach…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space...…

— Wilbur Wright

As the pressure of population increasingly regiments us and crowds us closer together, an association with the wild, winged freedom of the birds will…

— Edwin Way Teale

“We aeronauts of the spirit! All those brave birds which fly out into the distance, into the farthest distance – it is certain! somewhere…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need…

— Romain Rolland

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

Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors.…

— Diane Ackerman

The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle