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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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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 only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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