I’ve often said that my rats have taught me much more than I’ve taught them.
B. F. SKINNERWe do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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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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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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I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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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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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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The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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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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Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code – a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren’t any right people.
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Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
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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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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 do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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