B. F. Skinner Quotes

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B. F. Skinner

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. - B. F. Skinner

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. - B. F. Skinner

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again. - B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. - 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. - B. F. Skinner

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. - B. F. Skinner

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. - B. F. Skinner

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything. - B. F. Skinner

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