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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.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Men
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Ignorance
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Frontier
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Frontiers
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Thoughtful

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One fails forward toward success.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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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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