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B. F. Skinner Quote - The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
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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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…not everyone is willing to defend a position of ‘not knowing.’ There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
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Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Men build society and society builds men.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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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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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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