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Alexander Graham Bell
Age: 75 †
Born: 1847
Born: March 3
Died: 1922
Died: August 2
Businessperson
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Edinburgh
Scotland
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I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
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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.
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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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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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Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
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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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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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I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.
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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 telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
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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 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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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
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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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Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
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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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What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.
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