Alexander Graham Bell

We should try to prevent the propagation of the unfit.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do so you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before.

The telephone will be a great convenience to business men, but it will never be used by the general public.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

The inventor looks at the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve them, he wants to change things, he is inspired by the desire to invent.

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of the creation of the world, and I do not believe any such proof will be found.

The telephone may be used for the transmission of speech, music, and other sounds, but its principal use will be for communication between individuals.

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 give up until he finds it.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

I did not invent the telephone, the telephone invented me.

The day will come when the man in the street will be able to send his voice to any part of the world, and hear the reply.

We are all too much inclined to follow the beaten paths of others, and it is only by striking out into new and untrodden ground that any discovery can be made.

The greatest minds are those who are not afraid to be wrong.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

The telephone will be so important that every town will have one.

The deaf must hear, and the blind must see.

The inventor is a man who looks at the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve them.

I am a man of science, and I believe in the power of observation and experimentation.

The telephone is an electrical toy.

We are all born with a certain potential, and it is up to us to fulfill it.