Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In… — 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
