Tag: Alexander Graham Bell
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Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.
Alexander Graham Bell
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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 quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell
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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.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Alexander Graham Bell
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It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‘oral method’ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‘sign language’ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed.
Alexander Graham Bell
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It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.
Alexander Graham Bell