Quotes by B. F. Skinner

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

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

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

Education is not just the filling of a pail, it is the lighting of a fire.