"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
Matthew 7:3
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
Justice Louis Brandeis
"Go ahead, make my day."
Inspector Harry Callahan
On October 8, 1903 Samuel Langley's first attempt at manned, powered, heavier than air flight failed. The New York Times stated in an editorial:
"The ridiculous fiasco which attended the attempt at aerial navigation in the Langley flying machine was not unexpected. The flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one to ten million years . . ."
Two months later the Wright Brothers made their historic first flight.
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