More Quotes by Alexander Graham Bell
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
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.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
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.
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
