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I'm very pessimistic.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Pessimistic Very

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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

Topics: Down Falls Individual Individual Rights Insist Rights Society Structure Then Whole You

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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

Topics: Agnostic Cannot Conditions Force Idea Initial Intelligence Know Life Organizing Planets Say Set Since Some Stars Such A Way Ultimately Universe Up Way

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

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Drop Else Everything Everything Else Interesting Run Something Study You

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

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Act Area Being Directing Feeling Fruitful Inquiry Interested Kind Neurological Signal Us

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

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Books Great Love Reading Should Teach

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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Attacks Early Helpless Individual Society

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

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: About Always Been Changes He Man Remains Theory

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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.

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Another Church Get Kind Obedience Own Religions Strengthen Use Work

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

~B. F. Skinner

Topics: Beyond Condition Control Five Live More Next No Reason People Reason Than Think Which Who Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: March 20th, 1904

Died: August 18th, 1990

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