Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.' — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
