There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

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.

Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

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

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.

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.