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Human Quotes by B.F. Skinner
- Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make…
- The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is…
- I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having…
- The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.
- Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who…
- If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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