QUOTES by Alexander Graham Bell
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end."
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"Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone."
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"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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"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
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"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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"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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"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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"Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. You'll be certain to find something you have never seen before."
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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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"Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you. [First intelligible words spoken over the telephone]"
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"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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"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself."
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"The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent."
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"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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"Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires."
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"What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists."
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"It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."
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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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"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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"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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"God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut"
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"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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"Another discovery which came out of my investigation was the fact that when one gives his or her order to produce a definite result and stands by that order, it seems to have the effect of giving one what might be termed a second sight which enables him or her to see right through ordinary problems. What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when one is in that state of mind in which he or she knows exactly what one wants and is fully determined not to quit until he or she finds it."
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"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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"The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another."
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"The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action."
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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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"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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"Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired."
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"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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"It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say 'oral method' to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say 'sign language' to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment."
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"Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed."
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"Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem."
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"From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work."
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"I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely."
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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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"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
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"It is not, of course, complete yet - but some sentences were understood this afternoon... I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem - and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas - and friends converse with each other without leaving home."
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"It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician - but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is - so that I have an advantage there."
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