“ A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. 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 insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. 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
“ Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more… B. F. Skinner
“ I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of… B. F. Skinner
“ I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die. B. F. Skinner
