Behavior Quote by B. F. Skinner

It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is…

— Celia Green

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

— B. F. Skinner

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals,…

— Charles Darwin

There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties

— Charles Darwin

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

— John Locke

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

“Male rats don’t experience the hormonal changes that trigger maternal behavior in female rats. They never normally participate in infant care. Yet put a…

— Cordelia Fine

From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than…

— Emile Durkheim

If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do…

— Richard Rosen

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

— Morrie Schwartz

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that…

— Mark Twain