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On January 4, 2016, the B. F. Skinner Foundation launched a new project – Skinner’s Quote of the Day. Quotes from B. F. Skinner’s works, selected by renowned scientists, appear daily Monday-Friday in order, starting with Chapter 1 of each book and running all the way through the last chapter. We started with the Science and Human Behavior (January-December 2916), followed by About Behaviorism (January-November 2017), Contingencies of Reinforcement (January-October 2018), Recent Issues (October 2018-May 2019), Reflections on Behaviorism and Society (May 2019-February 2020), and now moving on to Upon Further Reflection (from February 10 2020).

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Science and Human Behavior, Chapter 2 A Science of Behavior?, Quote 3

Post author:B. F. Skinner Foundation
Post published:January 13, 2016
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

"Experiments do not always come out as one expects, but the facts must stand and the expectations fall. The subject matter, not the scientist, knows best." (p. 13) …

Science and Human Behavior, Chapter 2 A Science of Behavior?, Quote 2

Post author:B. F. Skinner Foundation
Post published:January 12, 2016
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

"Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes." (p. 12) Subscribe to RSS feed here

Science and Human Behavior, Chapter 2 A Science of Behavior?, Quote 1

Post author:B. F. Skinner Foundation
Post published:January 11, 2016
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

Science is first of all a set of attitudes. It is a disposition to deal with the facts rather than with what someone has said about them. Rejection of authority…

Science and Human Behavior, Chapter I Can Science Help?, Quote 5

Post author:B. F. Skinner Foundation
Post published:January 8, 2016
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

"The Copernican theory of the solar system displaced man from his pre-eminent position at the center of things. Today we accept this theory without emotion, but originally it met with…

Science and Human Behavior, Chapter I Can Science Help?, Quote 4

Post author:B. F. Skinner Foundation
Post published:January 7, 2016
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

"Science not only describes, it predicts. It deals not only with the past but with the future. Nor is prediction the last word: to the extent that relevant conditions can…

Science and Human Behavior, Chapter I Can Science Help?, Quote 3

Post author:B. F. Skinner Foundation
Post published:January 6, 2016
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

"Science is more than a description of events as they occur. It is an attempt to discover order, to show that certain events stand in lawful relations to other events.…

Science and Human Behavior, Chapter I Can Science Help?, Quote 2

Science and Human Behavior, Chapter I Can Science Help?, Quote 1

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SKINNER'S QUOTE OF THE DAY