B. F. Skinner Quotes

"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."
- B. F. Skinner
(Related: Society)

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."
- B. F. Skinner
(Related: Education)

"The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again."
- B. F. Skinner
(Related: Act, Consequences)

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
- B. F. Skinner
(Related: Men, Machines)

"The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount."
- B. F. Skinner
(Related: Positive)

"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."
- B. F. Skinner
(Related: Love, Books, Reading)

"I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is."
- B. F. Skinner
(Related: Design, Life, Decisions)

"Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything."
- B. F. Skinner

"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."
- B. F. Skinner
(Related: Mistake, Failure, Circumstances, May, Trying)