B. F. Skinner Quotes

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

By B. F. Skinner

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

By B. F. Skinner

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

By B. F. Skinner

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

By B. F. Skinner

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

By B. F. Skinner

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

By B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.

By B. F. Skinner

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.

By B. F. Skinner

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

By B. F. Skinner

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

By B. F. Skinner