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

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" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" The environment shapes people's actions. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills. "

" I'm very pessimistic. "

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

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

" What is sought can never produce the seeking. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Reinforcement is being right. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Great scientific contributions have been techniques. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "