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

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Uncovering
Kindergarten
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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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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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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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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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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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