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" Great scientific contributions have been techniques. "

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" Reinforcement is being right. "

" Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants. "

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

" 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. "

" What is sought can never produce the seeking. "

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

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

" We have not yet seen what man can make of man. "

" I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it. "

" The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years. "

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