B.F. Skinner: Doing

B.F. Skinner was American behaviorist. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

B.F. Skinner: 60 quotes28 likes

“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.”

“The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.”

B.F. Skinner Walden Two

Source: Walden Two

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

Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis (1969).
Source: Contingencies Of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis

“I do not admire myself as a person. My successes do not override my shortcomings.”

Journal of Humanistic Psychology Spring 1991 vol. 31 no. 2 112-113

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

B.F. Skinner book Beyond Freedom and Dignity

Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1972).

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