Don Ameche credited as playing...
Alexander Graham Bell
- Alexander Graham Bell: Your honor... Have I committed some offense by starving in an attic? By spending sleepless nights at my work? By being too poor to own a decent scrap of paper, on which to tell her of my love? I have sat here for days and heard myself called liar, thief, fraud and cheat. I've seen my friends humiliated, my invention belittled, just as I have seen my business destroyed by methods which must leave every honest man appalled.
- Alexander Graham Bell: Shall the lonely scientist, the man who dreams, and out of his dreams benefits the world, is he, that often half-starved, lonely little man, to be told the world has no need of him the moment his work is done?
- Alexander Graham Bell: Is he to be told that others, less gifted, but stronger, men with money and power behind them, are waiting to take the product of his genius and turn it to their own uses? -leaving him with liar and thief branded on his brow as his only reward? Do that, and you stop the clock of progress. You smother the spark of genius that lies hidden here and there throughout the world. Do that, and the world stands still.
- Gardner Hubbard: May I ask who is going to pay for this pilgrimage?
- Alexander Graham Bell: Well sir, I felt that so long as you and Mr Sanders already have so much money involved, you'd be willing...
- Gardner Hubbard: Mr. Bell, I used to call you a fool. I apologise. You're a genius. I'm the fool. Young man, you have a blissful disregard for money. That may be an enviable asset in a genius but not in a business partner.
- Gardner Hubbard: Come over to supper on Saturday night and we'll talk it over. I hope you like beans - Boston baked beans?
- Alexander Graham Bell: Not much, and besides...
- Gardner Hubbard: You'll like the kind my cook prepares. Come on Sanders, it's two and a half minutes past nine!
