"We find that in research a certain amount of intelligent ignorance is essential to progress; for, if you know too much, you won't try the thing."
— Charles Kettering

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography Of Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas Alvin Boyd, 1957 p. 106 (Internet Archive)