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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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