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

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" Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection? "

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

" 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. "

" Great scientific contributions have been techniques. "

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

" Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful. "

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

" I'm very pessimistic. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I never really expected to be controversial. "

" The environment shapes people's actions. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "