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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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.
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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