John B. Watson

"We are products of our conditioning, but we can change our conditioning."

"The infant comes into the world as a bundle of reflexes, nothing more."

"Psychology without biology is incomplete."

"Emotion is merely a collection of physiological responses."

"Give me a dozen healthy infants and I can turn any one of them into a specialist."

"The objective study of behavior is all psychology needs to be."

"Introspection is a poor method for understanding the human mind."

"Reward and punishment are the scaffolding of learning."

"Language is learned behavior, nothing more mystical than that."

"The child learns what society teaches through repetition and reinforcement."

"Nature provides the raw materials; nurture builds the person."

"Stimulus and response are the fundamental units of behavior."

"Freedom is an illusion created by those unaware of their conditioning."

"The unconscious mind is simply behavior we have not yet observed."

"Love is merely a conditioned emotional response."

"Society's rules are simply learned behavioral patterns."

"The individual is secondary to the group in behavioral development."

"Psychological problems are behavioral problems, nothing more."

"Innovation comes from understanding how behavior actually works."

"The scientific method demands we study only observable behavior."

"Character is built through controlled conditioning from birth."

"Modern psychology must abandon the ghost in the machine."

"Every human being is essentially a machine responding to environmental inputs."

"The past shapes us only insofar as we let it condition us."

"Speech is learned behavior developed through social interaction."

"The child is father to the man through behavioral habituation."

"Thoughts themselves are nothing but internal behavioral responses."

"Control the environment and you control the behavior."

"Evolution favored organisms with flexible, learnable behaviors."

"Desires are learned through association with pleasant stimuli."