A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds. Indeed, it is possible that all the distinctive achievements of the species can be traced to that one genetic change.

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.