Quote by Orville Wright
With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights

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. – Orville Wright

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

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The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. – Orville Wright

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In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power. – Orville Wright

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I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. – Frederick Sanger

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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries. – John Tyndall

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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. – Julius Caesar

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As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. Its no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. – Erik Qualman

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You can avoid most of the sorrows of life, the only requirement being that you avoid all the happiness. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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