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“Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.”

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A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

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The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must…

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Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been…

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I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

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A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine…

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The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious…

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Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

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The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that…

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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.

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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.

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