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B. F. Skinner
11 quotes
Quotes
- “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 ...”
- “Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environmen...”
- “A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to ...”
- “A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment...”
- “The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.”
- “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
- “If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.”
- “The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
- “We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading.”
- “Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.”
- “Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.”