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.
B. F. SKINNERThe real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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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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We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.
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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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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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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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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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But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn’t freedom. It’s not control that’s lacking when one feels ‘free’, but the objectionable control of force.
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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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