Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.