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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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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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 you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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