B. F. Skinner

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

B. F. Skinner

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

B. F. Skinner

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

B. F. Skinner

What is sought can never produce the seeking.

B. F. Skinner

When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

B. F. Skinner

You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

B. F. Skinner

A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

B. F. Skinner

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

B. F. Skinner

A person’s genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

B. F. Skinner

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

B. F. Skinner