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B. F. Skinner quotes - page 2
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
B. F. Skinner
We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.
B. F. Skinner
Nowadays, everybody fancies himself an expert in government and wants to have a say.
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
Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
B. F. Skinner
I do not admire myself as a person. My successes do not override my shortcomings.
B. F. Skinner
It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious.
B. F. Skinner
Behavior is determined by its consequences.
B. F. Skinner
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
B. F. Skinner
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
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
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
B. F. Skinner
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
B. F. Skinner
Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
B. F. Skinner
Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
B. F. Skinner
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
B. F. Skinner
Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
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
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
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
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
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
B. F. Skinner
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B. F. Skinner
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Occupation:
American Psychologist
Born:
March 20, 1904
Died:
August 18, 1990
Quotes count:
68
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B. F. Skinner
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