Skinner Quotes

“Cider was my drink because I liked the taste and it made me stupid.”

“The opposite of a coward is one who knows and does the right thing at the right time even if it may cost them their own life.”

“I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.”

“Led Zep played with light and shade, ear-splitting noise and echoing quiet. They could do it all.”

“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 secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?”

“If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.”

“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.”

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”

“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.”