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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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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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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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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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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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