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B. F. Skinner


American
March 20, 1904
Psychologist
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I'm very pessimistic.


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The environment shapes people's actions.


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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.


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I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.


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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.


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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.


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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.


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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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