B.F. Skinner

"The consequences of behavior determine the probability that the behavior will occur again."

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

"We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship Earth successfully nor make our impassioned plea for another chance unless we see it whole."

"The problem is that we are trying to maintain a technological society with a Stone Age emotion."

"Freedom is felt when the controlling relation between a person and the environment is acknowledged."

"Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there is no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done."

"The real problem is that the world is very largely controlled by people who believe in it."

"Once we have a child, we assume the child will learn to conform to society's norms."

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

"I did not direct my life. I didn't school myself into success and happiness."

"Science is not concerned with purposes, causes in the Aristotelian sense, or ultimate origins."

"The test of whether I truly believe something is whether I am willing to give up something to support it."

"Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a complete negation of it."

"Things are changing. Sons go into business completely unprepared to take over the family business."

"A person is not, then, independent, and he is not dissociated."

"In the long run, the world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests."

"We can't accept concepts or ideas that go beyond the realm of science."

"Man's unique reward is to love and be loved."

"Control your environment before it controls you."

"The practice of looking for something that should obviously be there, but is not there, is a particularly reliable way of making discoveries."

"It is a mistake to say that the practice of our religion has nothing to do with the defense of our country."

"Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man."

"The true problem is whether the brain does all that is done."

"The things we fear most in organizations are usually just reflections of the psychological dead spots in their leaders."

"The consequences of an act affect the probability of the act's occurring again."

"Cultures is not something that the individual has or does not have; it is something that the group has and transmits to the individual."

"We must make the best use of what is in our power, and take the rest as it happens."

"Art, music, and literature should not be censored."

"No one asks how to motivate a pigeon to want the food: he simply starves the pigeon."