B(urrhus) F(rederic) 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(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner

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

— B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner

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

— B(urrhus) F(rederic) 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(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner

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

— B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

— B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner

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

— B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner