Accepting Quote by B. F. Skinner

“Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.” quote by B. F. Skinner — Download Open image

“Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.”

B. F. Skinner

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