The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and the learning of books are only a means to this end. We develop power and courage and determination… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood.... I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science. — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and the learning… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves. — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences… — John B. Watson 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 any one… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct'… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
