The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

You do research into specific occupations of the character, with specific behaviorisms that their daily life might give them. You do as much research…

— Guy Burnet

“The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and…

— Germany Kent

“Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came…

— Nikola Tesla

“I would have been glad to agree to let them all proceed henceforth in complete ignorance of psychology, if they would forget my opinion…

— B. F. Skinner

“Behaviorism was but one instance of a terrible temptation for all intellectuals, namely that of nothing-but-ism. History is nothing but the clash of class…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“In behaviorism, an infant's talents and abilities didn't matter because there was no such thing as a talent or an ability. Watson had banned…

— Steven Pinker

Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief…

— Henry M. Morris

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

Think of all the nonsense you had to learn in psychology courses. None of which was testable. None of which was measurable. We had…

— Michio Kaku

Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something…

— Anonymous

“One may take the line that metaphorical devices are inevitable in the early stages of any science and that although we may look with…

— B.F. Skinner

“It isn't the sort of argument Pointsman relishes either. But he glances sharply at this young anarchist in his red scarf. "Pavlov believed that…

— Thomas Pynchon

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

“Behaviorism entails the systematic denial of meaning, a denial which does violence to both the evidence and the everyday experience of humanity.”

— Theodore Dalrymple