Quotes by B. F. Skinner

B. F. Skinner

A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

Culture

Hands

Novelty

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

Disappointment

Errors

Might

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.

Education

Giving Up

Perseverance

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 not enjoyed by philosophy.

Answers

May

Philosophy

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

Dedication

Science

Technology

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

Intelligent

Men

Numbers

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

Behavior

Consequence

Determined

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

Behavior

Consequence

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Chaos

Genius

Men

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

Doe

Environmental

Poet

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Age

Aggression

Answers

Anxiety

Beautiful

Behavior

Behaviour

Believe

Book

Change

Chaos

Children

Citizens

Clear

Consequence

Country

Culture

Damn You

Dedication

Definitions

Deserve You

Design

Determined

Differences

Different

Disappointment

Doe

Done

Dying

Education

Effort

Enjoy

Environmental

Errors

Facts

Genius

Giving

Giving Up

Good Life

Hands

Has Beens

Holocaust

Honesty

Ideas

Important

Individual

Inspiring

Intellectual

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Quotes by B. F. Skinner

B. F. Skinner

A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

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.

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 not enjoyed by philosophy.

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

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