- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
- Behavior
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Helpless
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- Nov 07, 2020
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very pessimistic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environment shapes people's actions.
- Obedience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Averse
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
- Expected
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really expected to be controversial.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
- Nov 07, 2020
Reinforcement is being right.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
- Produce
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is sought can never produce the seeking.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020