We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. SKINNERWe admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word ‘admire’ then means ‘marvel at.’
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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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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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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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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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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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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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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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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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Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.
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No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn’t die out, it’s wiped out.
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When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
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At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.
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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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