Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely…

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

— John B. Watson

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

— John B. Watson

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain.…

— Carl Sagan

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

— Edward Thorndike

“It happens, therefore, that readers of the book, or of any other book built about a central concept, fall into three mutually exclusive classes:…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

“Their thinking challenged many notions that were gospel in psychology and among the general public, such as the behaviorist's view that people do things…

— Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Nevertheless, in the field of second and foreign language teaching, behaviorist pedagogy—i.e., direct instruction in various forms—maintains a large following, which seems to grow…

— James Crawford

“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

An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the…

— J. J. C. Smart

The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for…

— Alexander von Humboldt

“The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of Mamun, the…

— John Bagot Glubb

I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can…

— J. B. Bury

If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics…

— Cassius Jackson Keyser

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of…

— Albert Einstein