To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery,… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
No theory changes what it is a theory about. Nothing is changed because we look at it, talk about it, or analyze… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share
