Quotes by : B.F. Skinner

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition....

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

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which....

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

I would have been glad to agree to let them all proceed henceforth in complete ignorance of psychology,....

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.....

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

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

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