"We were confident that we had solved the problem of human flight."

"For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has progressed to an incurable stage."

"The greatest danger in flying is the ground."

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their monotonous lives, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, on the wings of the wind."

"The best thing about being a man of science is that you never have to be bored."