“Like the bumblebee, they said it could never fly.”
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This statement appeared a few years ago in Popular Science, starting off an article about drag racing.
Indeed, the venerable line about scientists having proved that a bumblebee can’t fly appears regularly in magazine and newspaper stories. It’s also the kind of item that can come up in a cocktail party conversation when the subject turns to science or technology.