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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 life is.
— B.F. Skinner
Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
— B.F. Skinner
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
— B.F. Skinner
Behavior is determined by its consequences.
— B.F. Skinner
I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
— B.F. Skinner
Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
— B.F. Skinner
Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
— B.F. Skinner
To say that ... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
— B.F. Skinner
The consequences of behavior determine the probability that the behavior will occur again
— B.F. Skinner
Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences
— B.F. Skinner
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
— B.F. Skinner
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
— B.F. Skinner
Reinforcement is being right.
— B.F. Skinner
As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.
— Andrew Weil
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 trying.
— B.F. Skinner
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
— B.F. Skinner
small communities
— B.F. Skinner
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
— B.F. Skinner
What is sought can never produce the seeking.
— B.F. Skinner
I'm very pessimistic.
— B.F. Skinner
Not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
— B.F. Skinner
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
— B.F. Skinner
The final state of affairs may not have been foreseen. Perhaps we are merely reading a plan into the world after the fact.
— B.F. Skinner
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despairor the height of a battle against boredom. — B.F. Skinner
I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.
— B.F. Skinner
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
— B.F. Skinner
The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
— B.F. Skinner
The amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.
— B.F. Skinner
The rat is always right.
— B.F. Skinner
Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.
— B.F. Skinner
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
— B.F. Skinner
Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
— 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
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
— B.F. Skinner
Men build society and society builds men.
— B.F. Skinner
It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.
— B.F. Skinner
The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity.
— B.F. Skinner
I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
— B.F. Skinner
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
— B.F. Skinner
The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us - here and now.
— 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
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.
— B.F. Skinner
The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.
— B.F. Skinner
I never really expected to be controversial.
— B.F. Skinner
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'
— B.F. Skinner
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
— B.F. Skinner
The environment shapes people's actions.
— B.F. Skinner
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
— B.F. Skinner
If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.
— B.F. Skinner
It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.
— B.F. Skinner
The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
— B.F. Skinner