"Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which Man will never be able to cope."
- Simon Newcomb , early 1903
"The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic, carrying innumerable passengers; in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. It seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary …."
– William H. Pickering, 1910
"If God had meant for Man to fly, He wouldn’t have put all this traction down here."
-Henry Ford, c1900 (Apocryphal)
"Space Travel is Utter Bilge"
-Richard Wooley, astronomer, 1956
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