"The best dividends on the labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power."

"It is a question of whether the machine was designed to be beautiful, or beautiful because it was well designed."

"The problem was not to build a machine that would fly, but to build a machine that would fly safely."

"The course of the experiment was not exactly according to program. The machine started to make a series of dives and dashes in various directions. It was a rather wild ride."

"It was the first time in the history of the world that a machine carrying a man had raised itself by its own power into the air in full flight, had sailed forward without reduction of speed, and had f…"