Cumulative Record. Chapter 26: Creating the Creative Artist. Quote 2

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Post published:September 28, 2023
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

Let me tell you about Chomsky. I published Verbal Behavior in 1957. In 1958 I received a 55-page typewritten review by someone I had never heard of named Noam Chomsky. I read half a dozen pages, saw that it missed the point of my book, and went no further. (p. 391)

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