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Only Quotes by B.F. Skinner
- But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but…
- 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…
- To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
- 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…
- If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
- Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
- I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having…
- Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.
- We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
- 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…
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle