Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train h…

- John B. Watson

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

- John B. Watson

There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a r…

- John B. Watson

This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube,…

- John B. Watson

Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood.... I'll make it a …

- John B. Watson

Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the …

- John B. Watson

The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and the learning of books are only a means to …

- John B. Watson

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

- John B. Watson

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

- John B. Watson