B.F. Skinner
Most influential behaviorist, operant conditioning
Quotes by B.F. Skinner
We are not victims of our environment, but products of it.
The future is not something we enter, it is something we create.
The greatest good for the greatest number is achieved through the control of behavior.
The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to be useful.
The only way to change the world is to change behavior.
The individual is not important; the culture is.
Freedom is an illusion; control is inevitable.
Dignity is a concept that interferes with effective control.
The ultimate question is not what kind of world we want, but what kind of people we want.
The only way to improve the human condition is through a technology of behavior.
The way in which we think about the causes of human behavior is a product of our culture, and our culture is a product of our history.
We are all controlled by the world in which we live, and we are all controlling the world in which we live.
The problem is not to get rid of the control, but to make it effective.
Man is not free because he is not controlled by the environment, but because he is controlled by the environment in a particular way.
The concept of 'mind' is an explanatory fiction.
The way to build a better world is not to get rid of the bad people, but to get rid of the bad conditions.
We are not free to choose; we are free to be chosen.
The environment not only selects behavior, it also shapes it.
The concept of 'dignity' is a barrier to effective social change.
Punishment is not the way to teach.