Bhurrhus Frederic Skinner
(1904 - 1990)
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Science Quotes by Bhurrhus Frederic Skinner (4 quotes)
Instead of saying that a man behaves because of the consequences which are to follow his behavior, we simply say that he behaves because of the consequences which have followed similar behavior in the past. This is, of course, the Law of Effect or operant conditioning.
— Bhurrhus Frederic Skinner
The hypothesis that man is not free is essential to the application of scientific method to the study of human behavior. The free inner man who is held responsible for the behavior of the external biological organism is only a prescientific substitute for the kinds of causes which are discovered in the course of a scientific analysis.
— Bhurrhus Frederic Skinner
The Law of Inhibition. The strength of a reflex may be decreased through presentation of a second stimulus which has no other relation to the effector involved.
— Bhurrhus Frederic Skinner
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
— Bhurrhus Frederic Skinner
Quotes by others about Bhurrhus Frederic Skinner (1)
If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.