473 Quotes by B. F. Skinner

I think they really wanted to help us. But they're overwhelmed and understaffed.

I think they really wanted to help us, ... But they're overwhelmed and understaffed.

Justice was served because I think the ref gave them a goal. It was unfortunate that it came right at the end of the game. But the guys came through. That's what they're supposed to do.

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

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

In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.