It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on..

The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that th….

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of ….

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching..

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any ….

The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is….

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under whi….

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..

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli.

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before….

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment..

We have seen that in certain respects operant reinforcement resembles the natural selection of evolutionary theory. Just as genetic characteristics w….

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then ….

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid th….

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history….

To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his beh….

Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent..

Behavior is determined by its consequences..

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man..

In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what….