January 31, 2022 / Last updated : January 27, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Cumulative Record. Chapter 5: “Man”. Quote 8 There are many advantages in arranging matters so that the pupil does what he wants to do, but he must be carefully prepared to want to do those things which are required for effective instruction. (54)
January 28, 2022 / Last updated : January 19, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 9: What is Man? Quote 10 Yet, the individual is at best a locus in which many lines of development come together in a unique set. His individuality is unquestioned. (p. 209)
January 27, 2022 / Last updated : January 19, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 9: What is Man? Quote 9 Man himself may be controlled by his environment, but it is an environment which is almost wholly of his own making. The physical environment of most people is largely man-made. (pp. 205-206)
January 26, 2022 / Last updated : January 19, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 9: What is Man? Quote 8 Science does not dehumanize man, it de-homunculizes him, and it must do so if it is to prevent the abolition of the human species. (p. 200)
January 25, 2022 / Last updated : January 19, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 9: What is Man? Quote 7 In shifting control from autonomous man to the observable environment we do not leave an empty organism. A great deal goes on inside the skin, and physiology will eventually tell us more about it. (p. 195)
January 21, 2022 / Last updated : January 19, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 9: What is Man? Quote 5 Without the help of a verbal community all behavior would be unconscious. Consciousness is a social product. (p. 192)
January 20, 2022 / Last updated : January 19, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 9: What is Man?. Quote 4 It would be foolish to deny the existence of that private world, but it is also foolish to assert that because it is private it is of a different nature from the world outside. (p. 191)
January 19, 2022 / Last updated : January 19, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 9: What is Man?. Quote 3 Abstract thinking is the product of a particular kind of environment, not of a cognitive faculty. (p. 189)
January 18, 2022 / Last updated : January 12, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 9: What is Man?. Quote 2 We must know how the environment works before we can change it to change behavior. A mere shift in emphasis from man to environment means very little. (p. 185)
January 17, 2022 / Last updated : January 12, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 9: What is Man?. Quote 1 As a science of behavior adopts the strategy of physics and biology, the autonomous agent to which behavior has traditionally been attributed is replaced by the environment . . . (p. 184)
January 14, 2022 / Last updated : January 12, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 8: The Design of a Culture. Quote 13 [The scientist’s] apparatus exerts a conspicuous control on the pigeon, but we must not overlook the control exerted by the pigeon. (p. 169)
January 13, 2022 / Last updated : January 12, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 8: The Design of a Culture. Quote 12 To prevent the misuse of controlling power, . . . we must look not at the controller himself but at the contingencies under which he engages in control. (p. 168)
January 12, 2022 / Last updated : January 12, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 8: The Design of a Culture. Quote 11 There are, of course, good reasons why the control of human behavior is resisted. The commonest techniques are aversive, and some sort of countercontrol is to be expected. (p. 167)
January 11, 2022 / Last updated : January 4, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 8: The Design of a Culture. Quote 10 The problem is to design a world which will be liked not by people as they now are but by those who live in it. (p. 164)
January 10, 2022 / Last updated : January 4, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 8: The Design of a Culture. Quote 9 The important thing is not so much to know how to solve a problem as to know how to look for a solution. (pp. 160-161)
January 7, 2022 / Last updated : January 4, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 8: The Design of a Culture. Quote 8 A science of behavior is not yet ready to solve all our problems, but it is a science in progress, . . . the analysis continues to develop and is in fact much further advanced than its critics usually realize. (p. 160)
January 6, 2022 / Last updated : January 4, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 8: The Design of a Culture. Quote 7 The ease with which mentalistic explanations can be invented on the spot is perhaps the best gauge of how little attention we should pay to them. (p. 160)
January 5, 2022 / Last updated : January 4, 2022 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 8: The Design of a Culture. Quote 6 An analysis of behavior naturally begins with simple organisms behaving in simple ways in simple settings . . . We move forward only as rapidly as our successes permit, and progress often does not seem rapid enough. (p. 159)
January 4, 2022 / Last updated : December 28, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 8: The Design of a Culture. Quote 5 Perhaps we cannot now design a successful culture as a whole, but we can design better practices in a piecemeal fashion. (p. 156
January 3, 2022 / Last updated : December 28, 2021 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 8: The Design of a Culture. Quote 4 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. (p. 156)