B.F. Skinner — "The traditional view of man is an obstacle to a science of behavior."

"I did not need to be 'taught' to be scientific. It was a natural way of thinking."

"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."

"If we are to solve the problems that face us, we must get rid of the notion that we are independent agents, free to do as we please."

"The ultimate aim of the science of behavior is to understand and explain human behavior."

"Man is a machine, but a machine in the sense that a tree is a machine. What he does, he does because of his structure, not because of some indwelling agent called a 'will.'"