28 Quotes by Orville Wright

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

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

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

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

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.