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The Science of Behavior
Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974.
Psychologist | American
Born: 1904-03-20 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: August 18, 1990 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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
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
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