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B. F. Skinner Quotes:

B. F. Skinner quotes

Ocupation: Psychologist

Life: March 20, 1904 - August 18, 1990

Birthday: March 20

Death: August 18


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quote a failure is not always a mistake it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances b f skinner Quotes

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

source: - "Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much". Book by Jonathon Lazear and Wendy Lazear, p. 5, 1993.

Topics: Reality, Important, Way, Reinforcement, Positive Reinforcement

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.

source: - B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.257, Hackett Publishing

Topics: Done, Starting, Made

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

source: - "The Man and His Ideas". Book by Richard Isadore Evans (p. 73), 1968.

Topics: Inspiring, Education, Book, Joy Of Reading, Libraries And Reading

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

source: - B. F. Skinner (2014). “Verbal Behavior”, p.145, B. F. Skinner Foundation

Topics: Education, Important, Skins, Behaviorism

What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.

source: - B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.282, Hackett Publishing

Topics: Names, What Is Love, Vices, Positive Reinforcement

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

source: - B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.116, Hackett Publishing

Topics: Men, Genius, Chaos, Behaviorism

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.

source: - "The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology Vol. 4". Book edited by Joe L. Kincheloe and Raymond A. Horn, Ch. 99, p. 872 ("Unpacking the Skinner Box : Revisiting B. F. Skinner through a Postformal Lens" by Dana Salter), 2008.

Topics: Education, Reality, Design, Behaviorism

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

source: - B.F Skinner (2012). “Science And Human Behavior”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Wish, Facts, Accepting

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

source: - B. F. Skinner (2016). “The Technology of Teaching”, p.144, B. F. Skinner Foundation

Topics: Education, Advantage, Ends

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.

source: - "I have been misunderstood". Center Magazine Interview (pp. 63-65), March/April 1972.

Topics: Mistake, Men, Issues

Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.

source: - B. F. Skinner (2015). “Cumulative Record: Definitive Edition”, p.309, B. F. Skinner Foundation

Topics: Said, Has Beens


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