The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELLThere 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.
More Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
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First words on the first telephone – “Mr. Watson – come here – I want to see you.”
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The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
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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.
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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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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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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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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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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
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One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
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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 which has opened for us.
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Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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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.
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