We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components," or "Next time… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception,… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share
Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share
Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he wasn't quite… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share
What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share
“A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life” — Gregory Bateson Copy Share
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. It differs, however, from most other branches of human activity in… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share
Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life,… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share
The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share
Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur either in… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share
