The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior – verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.
B. F. SKINNERA piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.
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Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
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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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A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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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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What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it’s merely their guess.
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn’t given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
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We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It’s a question of what’s to be done from now on.
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At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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