We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
B. F. SKINNERChaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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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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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
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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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A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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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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I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.
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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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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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Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Behavior is determined by its consequences.
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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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