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• All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.
• Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.
• In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the…
• The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
• The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching…
• Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.
• More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.
• If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is…
• The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.
• The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only…
• I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive
• Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value

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