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Vaguely related are:

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
— Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895.

Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.
— Simon Newcomb, 1902.

..and this rather disdainful one:

The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.
— Hermann Goering, German Air Force Minister to Hitler, 1940.

emc

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

In reply to Re^2: Most infamous "Last words": by swampyankee
in thread Most infamous "Last words": by davido

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