We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked. — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you." — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus” — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share
We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share
“Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you. [ First intelligible words spoken over the telephone ]” — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share
I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share
“Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share
Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share
I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man's private life in order to satisfy… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share
Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share
There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share
