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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Uncovering
Kindergarten
Science
Things

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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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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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 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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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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 key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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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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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 have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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