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More Quotes by Alexander Graham Bell
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut.
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.
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!
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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 will be certain to find something you have never seen before. Of course it will be a little thing, but do not ignore it. One discovery will lead to another, and before you know it, you will have something worth thinking about to occupy your mind, and really big discoveries are the result of thought.
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.
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
