B. F. Skinner

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.”