What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists. Alexander Graham Bell More Quotes by Alexander Graham Bell More Quotes From Alexander Graham Bell 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. Alexander Graham Bell teamwork mind discovery America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. Alexander Graham Bell men country america 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. Alexander Graham Bell woods track certain The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. Alexander Graham Bell ends success men 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. Alexander Graham Bell breathing giving thinking 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. Alexander Graham Bell persons answers remember One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA Alexander Graham Bell usa one-day cities It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. Alexander Graham Bell degrees succeed men Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought. Alexander Graham Bell aids quiet night Observe, Remember, Compare. Alexander Graham Bell compare remember 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! Alexander Graham Bell scotland capes simple With every door that closes a new one opens. Alexander Graham Bell doors The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent. Alexander Graham Bell telephones used people 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. Alexander Graham Bell laughter clouds laughing Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Alexander Graham Bell woods track behinds Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires. Alexander Graham Bell desire animal men The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. Alexander Graham Bell perseverance success men 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. Alexander Graham Bell telephones skills facts 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. Alexander Graham Bell density air sound The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world. Alexander Graham Bell rehabilitation air world
