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In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.
Speech, quoted in Leonard Mosley, Lindbergh (2000), 347. In 1949, Lindbergh gave a speech when he received the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy.
See also: | Balance (5) | Biography (152) | Character (10) | Contribution (3) | Intellect (47) | Life (155) | Man (112) | Modesty (3) | Pioneer (2) | Progress (117) | Science (444) | Sense (32) | Simplicity (30) | Success (33) | Support (4) | Wing (5)
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. ... If we reflect upon our languages, we find at best they must be considered only as maps.
Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics (1958), 58.
See also: | Characteristic (12) | Language (38) | Map (6) | Semantics (2) | Structure (33) | Territory (2)
