John B. Watson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.”
-- John B. Watson

#Artist #Doctors #Race
“Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane.”
-- John B. Watson

#Taken #Animal #Men
“The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and the learning of books are only a means to this end. We develop power and courage and determination and we go out to achieve Truth, Wisdom and Justice. If we do not come to this, the cost of schooling is wasted.”
-- John B. Watson

#Determination #Book #Mean
“Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood.... I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless...”
-- John B. Watson

#Education #Baby #Dope
“The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.”
-- John B. Watson

#Tests #Consciousness
“There are... for us no instinctsâ€”we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of trainingâ€”belonging to man's learned behavior.”
-- John B. Watson

#Men #Psychology #Training
“The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.”
-- John B. Watson

#Views #Talking #Psychologist
“No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.”
-- John B. Watson

#Ideas #Soul #Religion
“This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube, or has in any way come into a relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience.”
-- John B. Watson

#Psychology #Soul #Religion

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