Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
B. F. SKINNERI 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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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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That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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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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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Men build society and society builds men.
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A 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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Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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