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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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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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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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