Quotes by : B.F. Skinner

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for....

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor.....

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding....

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.....

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking....

Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way.....

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom.....

Promising paradise or threatening hell-fire is, we assumed, generally admitted to be unproductive. It....

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'.....

Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code....