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“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.”
Meaning: Kettering, who worked alongside early aviation and engineering pioneers, praised the Wright brothers for ignoring experts who called flight impossible. Doubt can be a smoke screen rather than a wall. Test a claim of impossibility yourself with a small experiment before accepting it.