... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of…

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