B. F. Skinner Quotes - Page 5

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• The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

  B. F. Skinner

  Tendencies, Aggression, Clear

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• 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 has any concern for human achievements

  B. F. Skinner

  Practice, Achievement, Society

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• 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 possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Achievement, Sound

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• The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

  B. F. Skinner

  World, Violence, Looks

  B.F. SKINNER (1948). “WALDEN TWO”

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• Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

  B. F. Skinner

  Boredom, Despair, Battle

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.79, Hackett Publishing

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• Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

  B. F. Skinner

  Holocaust, Waiting, Nuclear

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• Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.

  B. F. Skinner

  Practice, People, Crowds

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