Alexander Graham Bell

Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

It is way better to be feared than loved, but only if you can't be both.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of speaking.

Eugenics is the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of marriage or to the use of the knife.

My wife speaks to me through the telephone, and I hear her voice as clearly as if she were in the room.

The photophone is the greatest invention since the telephone.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

The graphophone will preserve the voices of the dead.

I have always regarded manual labor as healthy and agreeable exercise.

The induction balance is a new instrument for the detection of metals.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures.

The telephone company was born of a necessity.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The deaf should be taught to speak, not to sign.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

I have had a wonderful life.

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

I have always been interested in the education of the deaf.

The telephone may be used for the transmission of speech, music, or any other sounds.