John B. Watson

"The laws of human behavior are as fixed as the laws of nature."

"Psychology should be grounded in physics and chemistry, not philosophy."

"The future of psychology lies in the laboratory, not the introspective couch."

"We can predict human behavior if we understand the conditioning that produced it."

"Emotions are not mysterious forces; they are learned behaviors."

"The mind is simply the product of behavioral conditioning."

"All psychological phenomena can be explained through stimulus and response."

"There is no ghost in the machine; only the machine itself."

"Psychology must be as objective as physics or chemistry."

"We are shaped by our environment far more than by our heredity."

"The key to understanding human nature is understanding conditioned responses."

"Education should focus on conditioning desirable behaviors."

"Introspection is unreliable and should be abandoned by psychology."

"The human being is a product of stimulus-response mechanisms."

"Psychology without experimentation is not psychology."

"Behavior is the only proper subject matter of psychology."

"We must study what organisms do, not what they think."

"The laws of conditioning apply to all organisms, human and animal alike."

"Consciousness is an outdated concept in modern psychology."

"Every human ability is the result of conditioning and practice."

"The future of society depends on the scientific study of behavior."

"We can shape human nature through proper environmental control."

"Psychology is the study of behavior, nothing more and nothing less."

"The mind-body dualism is a false problem that must be eliminated."

"Behavior is determined by the interaction of organism and environment."

"We should study human beings as objectively as we study laboratory rats."

"The concept of free will is incompatible with the science of behavior."

"Psychology must abandon the search for consciousness and focus on action."

"Human behavior follows laws as predictable as the laws of nature."

"Education is the systematic conditioning of human behavior."