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Quote for Sept. 22, 2010: Lord Kelvin, 1895

<p>&quot;Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.&quot; -- Lord William Thomson Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895.<br /> <br /> &nbsp;</p>

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord William Thomson Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895.

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Portrait of Lord Kelvin by Hubert Von Herkomer via
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