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Men Quotes by B.F. Skinner
- Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
- The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
- Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons…
- When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
- I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of…
- Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to…
- Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
- We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
- Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
- The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid…
- The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before…
- Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is…
- The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.
- A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for…
- 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 is,…
- The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster…
- The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to…
- In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to…
- Men build society and society builds men.
- To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he…
- I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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