B. F. Skinner Quotes

1904-1990, American Psychologist
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“Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.”
Influence
“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.”
VerifiedWalden Two (1948), p. 95 · evidenceSociety
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
Thoughts and Thinking
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
Verified"New methods and new aims in teaching", in New Scientist, 22(392) (21 May 1964), pp.483-4 · evidenceEducation
“The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.”
Consequences
“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.”
Failure
“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.”
Behavior