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Alexander Graham Bell
Age: 75 †
Born: 1847
Born: March 3
Died: 1922
Died: August 2
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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 the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
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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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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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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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With every door that closes a new one opens.
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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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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First words on the first telephone - Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you.
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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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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 most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
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One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
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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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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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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.
Alexander Graham Bell