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Men Quotes by Charles Kettering
- Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number…
- A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.
- 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…
- We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to…
- 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…
- 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…
- The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
- My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You…
- We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find…
- A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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