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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
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Derby
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Uncovering
Kindergarten
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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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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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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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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