Inspirational and Prescient Quotes fromAlexander Graham Bell

(1847 – 1922)

Inventor of the Telephone

To ask the value of speech is like asking the value of life.

We should not keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone; we should leave the beaten track occasionally and enter the woods. Every time you do that you will be certain to find something that you have never seen before.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

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.

In scientific researches there are no unsuccessful experiments; every experiment contains a lesson.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking. (1906)

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately rule the world. (1908)

Coal and oil are strictly limited in quantity. We can take coal out of a mine but we can never put it back. (1917)

The unchecked burning of fossil fuels will have a sort of greenhouse effect. (1917)

Inspirational and Prescient Quotes fromAlexander Graham Bell

(1847 – 1922)

Compiled by Paul Sloane