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Behaviorism Quotes by B.F. Skinner
- An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
- 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…
- 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…
- The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
- Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
- 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,…
- 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.
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
More Behaviorism Quotes
- Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems… — 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… — 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.… — B.F. Skinner
- The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not… — 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,… — 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… — Richard Rosen
- A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake… — B.F. Skinner