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
Overcrowding can be corrected ...
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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner
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 war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.
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 the objectionable control of force.
B. F. Skinner
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
B. F. Skinner
