Charles Kettering Science Quotations

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

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 can be sincere and still be stupid.

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.

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.

We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.