B.F. Skinner

"The problem is that we are trying to maintain a society in which people are free in the traditional sense."

"The purpose of education is to make the sick well."

"Perhaps the greatest challenge to mankind is the development of better ways to govern ourselves."

"We are not going to change the world by talk alone."

"The more we know about the causes of human behavior, the greater is our ability to influence it."

"The culture that has the power will dominate the others."

"Freedom of the mind requires not just the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts."

"To love is to be happy with, to be happy with is to take pleasure in the company of."

"The applause of a single human being is of great consequence."

"In order to be successful, you have to have hunger, desire, and perseverance."

"The question to be answered is not whether machines think but whether men do."

"Science is based on the assumption that behavior is lawful and orderly."

"Only the contingencies of survival produce the will to survive."

"The use of punishment in the family is very common and very destructive."

"Peace will come to the world when it comes to the individual."

"We should not teach people to like authority, we should teach them how to control authority."

"We are what we repeatedly do, therefore excellence is not an act but a habit."

"In the field of behavior analysis, the environment is the thing that counts."

"The consequences of behavior are not always immediately obvious."

"What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement?"

"Cultures evolve to meet the needs of a changing environment."

"We must change our behavior to survive."

"The world is not on a path toward utopia."

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

"Knowledge of the results of one's behavior is the most powerful tool for shaping behavior."

"A person is composed of a large number of variables, and the measurement of these variables is the task of science."

"Time is the medium in which all behavior occurs."

"We are a part of nature, not separate from it."

"The goal of science is to predict and control behavior."

"The function of the news media is not to provide us with information we need, but to report what is happening in the world."