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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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