Quotes: Alexander Graham Bell

"I am a believer in unconscious cerebration*. The brain is working all the time, though we do not know it. At night, it follows up what we think in the daytime. When I have worked a long time on one thing, I make it a point to bring all the facts regarding it together before I retire; and I have often been surprised at the results." *cerebration = thinking

–– Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish-born (with ties to Canada and the United States), inventor, scientist and engineer 

Source: Alan Lightman. In Praise of Wasting Time. New York: TED Books, Simon and Schuster, 2018; p. 54. 

via: Commonplace Book 2022, 2022, p. 59.

Quotes: Alexander Graham Bell

"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long and regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened." 

–– Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish-born (with ties to Canada and the United States), inventor, scientist and engineer 

via: Sketchbook A, 2018, p. 52.

Quotes: Alexander Graham Bell

"Discoveries and inventions arise from the observation of little things." 

–– Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish-born (with ties to Canada and the United States), inventor, scientist and engineer 

Source: National Geographic, January 1988, Vol 173, No. 1, p. 11

via Sketchbook 13, 2011, p. 143