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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
Kindergarten
Science
Things
Uncovering

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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 opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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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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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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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