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

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" 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 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. "

" Reinforcement is being right. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm very pessimistic. "

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

" I never really expected to be controversial. "

" 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. "

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

" A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Great scientific contributions have been techniques. "

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

" 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. "