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Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves anything. In science, experiments are designed, checked, altered, repeated-- but not in politics... We have no real cumulative knowledge. History tells us nothing. That's the tragedy of a political reformer.
Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves anything. In science, experiments are designed, checked, altered, repeated-- but not in politics... We have no real cumulative knowledge. History tells us nothing. That's the tragedy of a political reformer.
Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
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- B.F. Skinner
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- Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for B. F. Skinner: life dates 1904 to 1990. Wikidata Q213195, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213195 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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