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I'm very pessimistic.
Reinforcement is being right.
The environment shapes people's actions.
Men build society and society builds men.
Behavior is determined by its consequences.
I never really expected to be controversial.
What is sought can never produce the seeking.
We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
I don't believe in God, so I'm not afraid of dying.
We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences
I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.
Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.
Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli
A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.
The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.
When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom.
No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.
I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us - here and now.
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.