Tag: B. F. Skinner
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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.
B. F. Skinner
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
B. F. Skinner
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If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
B. F. Skinner
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What is sought can never produce the seeking.
B. F. Skinner
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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.
B. F. Skinner
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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.
B. F. Skinner
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
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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.
B. F. Skinner
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I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
B. F. Skinner
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
B. F. Skinner