United States psychologist and a leading proponent of behaviorism (1904-1990)

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Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?
Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.

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