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Quotes from Civil-suit deposition against the Herring-Curtiss Company — Wilbur Wright

1867–1912 United States

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Things which seemed reasonable were often found to be untrue, and things which seemed unreasonable were sometimes true. Under this condition of affairs students were accustomed to pay little attention to things that they had not personally tested.

Civil-suit deposition against the Herring-Curtiss Company (1909)

At that time there was no flying art in the proper sense of the word, but only a flying problem. Thousands of men had thought about flying machines and a few had even built machines which they called flying machines, but these were guilty of almost everything except flying.

Civil-suit deposition against the Herring-Curtiss Company (1909)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wilbur Wright (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.