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.

B. F. Skinner

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

B. F. Skinner

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

B. F. Skinner

Operant behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences for the individual.

B. F. Skinner

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

B. F. Skinner

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

B. F. Skinner

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

B. F. Skinner

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

B. F. Skinner

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

B. F. Skinner

Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.

B. F. Skinner