“Give me a dozen healthy infants and my own specified world to bring them up in, and I’ll guarantee to take anyone at random and train him to become any kind of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist … regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations and race of his ancestors.” (Watson 1924)
In this quote he explaining his view that people are born as a blank canvas, waiting to be drawn on and carved into characteristics and personality through environmental factors