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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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Charles Franklin Kettering
Uncovering
Kindergarten
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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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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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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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