I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
B. F. SKINNERA disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
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If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
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We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word ‘admire’ then means ‘marvel at.’
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student’s life.
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That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
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To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics which arise as mutations are selected or discarded by their consequences, so novel forms of behavior are selected or discarded through reinforcement.
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The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us – here and now.
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It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.
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A person’s genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
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