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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.
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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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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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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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