B. F. Skinner

The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

B. F. Skinner

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

B. F. Skinner

The meaning of an expression is different for speaker and listener; the meaning for the speaker must be sought in the circumstances under which he emits the verbal response and for the listener in the response he makes to a verbal stimulus.

B. F. Skinner

The metaphor of growth begins in the ‘kindergarten’ and continues into ‘higher’ education, diverting attention from the contingencies responsible for changes in the students’ behavior.

B. F. Skinner

The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us – here and now.

B. F. Skinner

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

B. F. Skinner

The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

B. F. Skinner

The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.

B. F. Skinner

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

B. F. Skinner

The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior – verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

B. F. Skinner