Science is a willingness to ...

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
 B. F. Skinner

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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
 B. F. Skinner
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
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.
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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.
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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