Orville Wright

The air is a vast laboratory, waiting to be explored.

We were not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom.

The airplane is a bridge between nations.

We were just two brothers working together.

The greatest adventure is to explore the unknown.

We had a clear vision of what we wanted to achieve.

The airplane is a symbol of freedom.

We were just ordinary people with an extraordinary dream.

The air is a canvas, and we are the artists.

We never stopped believing in ourselves.

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

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 again?

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grunts and mutterings, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space—on the infinite highway of the air.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

We were lucky enough to grow up in an environment where there was always encouragement to children to pursue intellectual interests; to investigate and even to criticize accepted beliefs.

No one person invented the airplane, but the Wright brothers were the first to make one that would carry a man.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

Success, when it comes, is usually the result of many years of hard work.

We could hardly wait to get to work in the morning. That is true. I do not recall that there was ever a morning when we did not want to get up and get started.