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" Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything. "

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" Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful. "

" Great scientific contributions have been techniques. "

" You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements. "

" 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. "

" I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith. "

" The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry. "

" I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men. "

" Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. "

" I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me. "

" No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been. "

" I'm very pessimistic. "

" The environment shapes people's actions. "

" I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture. "

" If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. "

" I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish. "

" Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. "

" The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. "

" If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. "

" When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it. "

" What is sought can never produce the seeking. "

" I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life. "

" I never really expected to be controversial. "

" The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. "

" I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control. "

" I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed. "

" Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement. "

" Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions. "

" Reinforcement is being right. "

" 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. "