Quotes by : B.F. Skinner

The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is....

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining....

Why did colleges make their students take examinations, and why did they give grade? What did a grade....

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

The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness....

Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure....

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best,....

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

In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him....

In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy....