No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior.

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select - doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood.... I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless.