Portal:Scotland/Selected quotes/25

... Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. ...
 * &mdash; Lord Kelvin, spoken in 1895.

... I would rather have a Scot come from Scotland to govern the people of this kingdom well and justly than that you should govern them ill in the sight of all the world. ...
 * &mdash; Louis IX of France, speaking to his eldest son, Louis.