People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject,… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
