Books Quote by B. F. Skinner

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

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

— B. F. Skinner

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

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

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

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

— B. F. Skinner

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

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

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

— B. F. Skinner

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

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

I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.

— B. F. Skinner