“The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be forgotten. The technique seems to be relatively free of objectionable by-products. We recommend it, for example… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share
“Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way. This result is no doubt responsible for its widespread use. We 'instinctively' attack anyone whose behavior displeases us - perhaps not in physical… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.” — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his support, trusting… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Democracy is the spawn of despotism. And like father, like son. Democracy is power and rule. It's not the will of the people, remember;… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be forgotten. The technique seems to be relatively free of objectionable by-products. We recommend it, for example when we suggest that a parent 'pay no attention' to objectionable behavior on the part of his child. If the… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share
“Science not only describes, it predicts. It deals not only with the past but with the future. Nor is prediction the last word: to… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“This is implied in the assertion that a man shows certain behavior because he was “born that way.” To object to this is not… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way. This result is no doubt responsible for… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“Promising paradise or threatening hell-fire is, we assumed, generally admitted to be unproductive. It is based upon a fundamental fraud which, when discovered, turns… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“In a democracy, there is no check against despotism, because the principle of democracy is supposed to be itself a check. But it guarantees… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“We can achieve a sort of control under which the controlled, though they are following a code much more scrupulously than was ever the… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
