B. F. Skinner – 7 Quotes

7 Quotes by B. F. Skinner

If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.

– B. F. Skinner

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

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

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

– B. F. Skinner

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

– B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

– B. F. Skinner

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

– B. F. Skinner