Igor Sikorsky Quotes

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways.

There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies.

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

It is difficult to fly without wings.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics; really interesting muscle physiology; really interesting neural computations.

Reality is a form of idolatry. It allows what is to define and limit what might be.

A bumblebee can't fly. He's aerodynamically unsound. But he doesn't know that.

I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.

You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight.

To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to 'fly' as far as eagles under our own power.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.

We are limited only by our thoughts

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

All limitations are self-imposed.