Quotes by B.F. Skinner, Walden Two

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A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to t — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Why did colleges make their students take examinations, and why did they give grade? What did a grade really mean? When — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have a — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But pr — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a po — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to beli — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself. — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code -- a code which w — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way-- to show that people will be happier if th — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologie — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Promising paradise or threatening hell-fire is, we assumed, generally admitted to be unproductive. It is based upon a fu — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus d — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is pos — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his support, trusti — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity. — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair — B.F. Skinner, Walden Two