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B. F. Skinner Quotes

American - Psychologist | March 20, 1904 - August 18, 1990

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.

Failure Best Mistake Trying Stop

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

Environment Pollution Will Abandoned

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Technology Men Think Problem Real

The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

Behavior Environment Kind Way Apply

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

Education Forgotten Been Learned

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Best Person Way Punishment Behave

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

Positive Important Way More Out

I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.

Children History Myself Me Genetics

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

Consequences Probability Act Affect

I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.

Life Stars Intelligence Space Know

The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

Feeling Kind Inquiry Act Being Us

The environment shapes people's actions.

People Environment Shapes Actions

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