B. F. Skinner Quotes

1904–1990, American Psychologist · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
Verified"New methods and new aims in teaching", in New Scientist, 22(392) (21 May 1964), pp.483-4 · evidenceDetails & citeEducation
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“Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.”
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“The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.”
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“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.”
Failure
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“Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.”
Behavior
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