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
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 at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist,… — 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
