John B. Watson - Behaviorism (1924)

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

John B. Watson

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 beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

John B. Watson

The universe will change if you bring up your children, not in the freedom of the libertine, but in behavioristic freedom.

John B. Watson

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.

John B. Watson