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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Observe, Remember, Compare.
When one door closes, another one opens.
With every door that closes a new one opens.
I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.
Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.
Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
One day every major city in America will have a telephone.
One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA
What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.
The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.
The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.
There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend to give in either till all is completed.
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.
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.
I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.
I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.
My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.
The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.
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.
I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.
