Quotes by : B. F. Skinner

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew....

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made....

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The....

We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading.

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution....

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls....

I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse....