B. F. Skinner Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.”

“I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.”

“I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.”

“I'm very pessimistic.”

“Reinforcement is being right.”

“We have not yet seen what man can make of man.”

“Great scientific contributions have been techniques.”

“I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.”

“I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.”

“I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.”