Quotes of B. F. Skinner - somelinesforyou

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

- B. F. Skinner

“ We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. ”

- 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

“ The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories? ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ 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

“ The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything. ”

- B. F. Skinner

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

- B. F. Skinner

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

- B. F. Skinner

“ The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories? ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. ”

- B. F. Skinner

“ The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man. ”

- 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

“ 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

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

- B. F. Skinner
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