Quotes from B. F. Skinner

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.

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

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.