To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.
B. F. SKINNERTo say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
More B. F. Skinner Quotes
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A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
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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 real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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That’s all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
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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 way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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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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Men build society and society builds men.
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What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
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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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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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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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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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