The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to the "mutations" of genetic theory. Some forms prove to be effective under prevailing circumstances and others not, and the perpetuation of the culture is determined accordingly.

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.