Tag: B. F. Skinner
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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.
B. F. Skinner
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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.
B. F. Skinner
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Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
B. F. Skinner
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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.
B. F. Skinner
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
B. F. Skinner
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
B. F. Skinner
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner
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The environment shapes people’s actions.
B. F. Skinner
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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?
B. F. Skinner