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If a man is not bound down, he is sure to succeed.

Alexander Graham Bell
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

Alexander Graham Bell
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself.

Alexander Graham Bell
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Alexander Graham Bell
Whenever you can measure a phenomenon you have a basis upon which may be built a science; in fact, all science is dependent upon measurement.

Alexander Graham Bell
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.

Alexander Graham Bell
A great many small things make a big one. Any one, if he will only observe, can find some little thing he does not understand as a starter for an investigation.

Alexander Graham Bell
I begin my work at about nine or ten o'clock in the evening and continue until four or five in the morning. Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Alexander Graham Bell
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.

Alexander Graham Bell
Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.

Alexander Graham Bell
To my mind, the "Evolutionary Hypothesis" tends to weaken belief in the "immortality of personal consciousness" by revealing a cause for the growth of such an idea quite independently of its truth.

Alexander Graham Bell