10 Quotes By B. F. Skinner


If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
B. F. Skinner on age

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner on best

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
B. F. Skinner on change

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner on design

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner on education

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner on failure

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner on life

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
B. F. Skinner on positive

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner on society

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner on technology