“Any human action that goes against what is ordinary, is deemed as an anomaly.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour). — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well,… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds.… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Eventually, I came to the conclusion that the key to improving dog-human relationships is through social cognition, not behaviorism. Positive reinforcement is… — Gregory Berns Copy Share Image
Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Behaviorism is sometimes criticized as encouraging unethical behavior. For example, most organizations offer rewards for increasing revenue and threat of punishment, perhaps… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics, said the late nineteenth-century idealist philosopher Bradley, is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct; but metaphysics… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
“One may take the line that metaphorical devices are inevitable in the early stages of any science and that although we may… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The Piranha didn’t talk like a person. He said things like “If you fuckin’ buy this bond in a fuckin’ trade, you’re… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“In behaviorism, an infant's talents and abilities didn't matter because there was no such thing as a talent or an ability. Watson… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“It isn't the sort of argument Pointsman relishes either. But he glances sharply at this young anarchist in his red scarf. "Pavlov… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“As for the public, the PR man, like the advertising expert and others who deal with people in the lump, including a… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“As the spectacular triumphs of technology mounted, something else was happening: old sources of belief came under siege. Nietzsche announced that God… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“Behaviorism entails the systematic denial of meaning, a denial which does violence to both the evidence and the everyday experience of humanity.” — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Behaviorism was but one instance of a terrible temptation for all intellectuals, namely that of nothing-but-ism. History is nothing but the clash… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
You do research into specific occupations of the character, with specific behaviorisms that their daily life might give them. You do as… — Guy Burnet Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I would have been glad to agree to let them all proceed henceforth in complete ignorance of psychology, if they would forget… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
![“Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum of my behaviorism. I disagree with this second point, but I agree with the first. I hold further that the behaviorism approach is mandatory. In psychology one may…” quote by Willard Van Orman Quine](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3e0/willard-van-orman-quine-10137_ads_some-have-said-that-the-thesis-of-indete_315688.jpg)
