Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

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  • 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.

  • Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

    "The Military Quotation Book". Book by James Charlton, p. 37, 1990.
  • 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.

  • The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

  • 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.

  • Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

  • 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.

    Statement to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, Massachusetts August 27, 1880. Published as "On the Production and Reproduction of Sound by Light", American Journal of Sciences, Third Series, Volume XX, No.118, pp. 305-324, October 1880.
  • With every door that closes a new one opens.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Life   Eye   Thinking  
  • Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.

  • 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!

  • Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

  • 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.

  • Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

    Interview in "How They Succeeded" by Orison Swett Marden, Chapter 2, 1901.
  • Observe, Remember, Compare.

  • The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

  • The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.

  • Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

  • The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

  • The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

    "How they succeeded: life stories of successful men told by themselves". Book by Orison Swett Marden (Chapter 2), 1901.
  • Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

  • Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

  • 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.

  • The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

    Interview in "How They Succeeded" by Orison Swett Marden, Chapter 2, 1901.
  • The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

  • One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

  • It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

  • America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

  • Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

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