I would have been glad to agree to let them all proceed henceforth in complete ignorance of psychology, if they would forget my opinion of chocolate sodas or the story of the amusing episode on...

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...

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it’s occurring again.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.

Give me a child and I’ll shape him into anything.

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.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

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

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.