List of Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

Washington Is No Place In Which To Carry Out Inventions

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One Day There Will Be A Telephone In Every Major City In The Usa

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.

America Is A Country Of Inventors, And The Greatest Of Inventors Are The Newspaper Men.

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.