Quotes by : B. F. Skinner

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

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....

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

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

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.

Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

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....