Carolina QuotesIf we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Orville Wright Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Letter to George A. Spratt (7 June 1908); as published in "Miracle at Kitty Hawk: Unpublished Letters of the Wright Brothers" by Fred C. Kelly, Part III, The Atlantic (July 1950)
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- letter
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- 1908
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“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as …” Orville Wright. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-550CC6718F. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/550cc6718f
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