Top 42 Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
#1. There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
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#2. I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! ... I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.
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#3. Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.
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#4. Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
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#6. The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.
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#7. First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."
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#8. Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus
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#9. Mr. Watson - Come here - I want to see you.
[First intelligible words spoken over the telephone]
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#11. The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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#12. It is the man who carefully advances step by step ... who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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#13. We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.
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#16. The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
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#17. The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.
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#18. Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.
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#20. The inventor ... looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea.
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#23. When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
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#24. Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
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#25. The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
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#26. God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
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#27. When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
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#28. Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
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#30. Grand telegraphic discovery today ... Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish ... the "timbre" of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.
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#31. America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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#33. You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
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#34. Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.
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#36. There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.
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#37. Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.
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#38. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do, you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
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#40. I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!
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#41. I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.
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#42. Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
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