"Give me a child at birth from any background, and let me control the total environment in which he is raised, and I will turn in into anything I wish him to be..." John Watson, 1912 "Synaptic adjustments will then modify the corresponding ideas and force them into different channels." Egas Moniz, 1949 at the Nobel Prize "The selection for toughness, heroism, social utility..., is not to be ruined by domestication-induced degeneracy." Konrad Lorenz, 1940 Danger of categorical thinking