Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Telephone inventor
Often attributed to him, but this phrasing is very similar to Thomas Carlyle's 'Man is a Tool-using Animal' from 'Sartor Resartus'. Bell might have quoted or paraphrased it.
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