Quotes of 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."
 

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

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

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

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

"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."
 

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

"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless."
 

"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."

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