Quotes from Orville Wright

Learning the secret of flight from a bird was a good deal like learning the secret of magic from a magician.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.

The exhilaration of flying is too keen, the pleasure too great, for it to be neglected as a sport.

We had taken up aeronautics merely as a sport. We reluctantly entered upon the scientific side of it.

When he learned that we were interested in flying as a sport, and not with any expectation of recovering the money we were expending on it, he gave us much encouragement. At

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