Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life” — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
