“Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

Quoted in Design of Devices and Systems (1998) by William H. Middendorf, p. 177.
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Context: Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone. Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. You will be certain to find something you have never seen before, and something worth thinking about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries are the result of thought.

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