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 View this quote
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. B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn’t die out, it’s wiped out. B. F. Skinner
The amateur doesn’t appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know. B. F. Skinner
The environment shapes people’s actions. B. F. Skinner
The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread. B. F. Skinner
The objection to the inner workings of the mind is not that they are not open to inspection but that they have stood in the way of the inspection of more important things. B. F. Skinner
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. B. F. Skinner
To increase a person’s consciousness of the external world is simply to bring him under more sensitive control of that world as a source of stimulation. B. F. Skinner
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word ‘admire’ then means ‘marvel at.’ B. F. Skinner
We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression. B. F. Skinner
American behaviorist
March 20th, 1904 - August 18th, 1990
