Gregory Bateson Quotes

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• Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. Art
• There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else. Believe
• In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents,… Always Attempt
• The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself. Creature
• What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me… All
• Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. Astonishing
• A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given… Answer
• The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and… Action
• 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 sure… Bullying
• After mastery comes artistry and not before. Artistry
• Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts… All
• It takes two to know one. Funny
• Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a… Changes
• Number is different from quantity. From
• Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one… Aptly
• It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely… Acted
• We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. Funny
• But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to… Answer
• It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and… Actual
• Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons… Combination

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