“We are all controlled by the world in which we live, and part of that world has been and will be constructed by men. The question is this: are we to be controlled by accident, by tyrants, or by ourselves in effective cultural design?”

— B. F. Skinner

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About B. F. Skinner

Psychologist • American

Burrhus Frederic Skinner was a highly influential American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was a professor of psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in...

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