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.
B. F. SKINNERIt 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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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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An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
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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 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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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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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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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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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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We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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Behavior is determined by its consequences.
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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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I don’t believe in God, so I’m not afraid of dying.
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