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B. F. Skinner

If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
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Age Change Environment Try Yourself
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Attack Help Society
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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Problem Reality Science Technology
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.
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Explanation History Mindset Person Work
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.
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Explanation History Mindset Person Work
Behavior is determined by its consequences.
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Attitude Determination
Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
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Deep Destruction Genius Mad Men
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
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Acceptance Science Willing
Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
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Explanation Justice Person Question See Understand
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
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Abuse Deep Education Important Listening Mental Skin Talk Violence
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
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Animal Difference Learning People
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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Men Question Reality Technology Thinking
Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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Children Education Himself Myself
It 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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Action Inspirational Journey Start
Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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Education Learning Need Teaching
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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Principle Recognition Run Study Yourself

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