…not everyone is willing to defend a position of ‘not knowing.’ There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
B. F. SKINNERSociety already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code – a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren’t any right people.
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I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn’t given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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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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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.
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If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
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Men build society and society builds men.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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