"I confess that, in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that men would not fly for 50 years. Two years later, we were making flights. This demonstration of my inability as a prophet gave me such a shock…"

"We have at last succeeded in making a machine that will fly."

"The time will come when man will fly."

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

"It is not necessary to be a horse to be a good jockey."