Behaviorism Quotes

16 quotes by 3 authors

• Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and… — Henry M. Morris
• An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin. — B.F. Skinner
• Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those… — B.F. Skinner
• The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is… — 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 process… — 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 stop… — B.F. Skinner
• 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 so. — Richard Rosen
• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop… — B.F. Skinner
• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what… — B.F. Skinner
• We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. — B.F. Skinner
• Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything. — B.F. Skinner
• Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible,… — B.F. Skinner
• A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process. — B.F. Skinner
• No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work.… — B.F. Skinner
• The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to… — B.F. Skinner
• The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of… — B.F. Skinner

Who Wrote These Behaviorism Quotes

3 authors contributed a total of 16 Behaviorism Quotes as follows:

• 14 Behaviorism Quotes by B.F. Skinner
• 1 Behaviorism Quote by Henry M. Morris
• 1 Behaviorism Quote by Richard Rosen