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# Gregory Bateson

(1904–1980)   Anthropologist   United Kingdom

 **94** quotes in **516** categories

Gregory Bateson points out that number and quantity are not the same thing. He explains that neurons fire only when certain other neurons fire together, a process called synaptic summation. He warns that power can corrupt people quickly, especially those who crave it.

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Gregory Bateson was an anthropologist from the United Kingdom, best known for *Steps to an ecology of mind*.

## Quick Facts About Gregory Bateson

Born May 9, 1904

Died July 4, 1980

Nationality United Kingdom

Profession Anthropologist

Notable works Steps to an ecology of mind

Spouse Margaret Mead

## About Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. His writings include Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972) and Mind and Nature (1979).

## Awards & Honors

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Guggenheim Fellowship California Hall of Fame

##  Quotes by Gregory Bateson

> [Science probes; it does not prove.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/science-probes-it-does-not-prove/)

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> [Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/life-and-mind-are-systemic-processes/)

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[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

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> [All experience is subjective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/all-experience-is-subjective/)

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[Experience](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience/)

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> [Multiple descriptions are better than one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/multiple-descriptions-are-better-than-one/)

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[Better](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/better/)

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> [Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/logic-is-a-poor-model-of-cause-and-effect/)

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> [It takes two to know one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/it-takes-two-to-know-one/)

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> [Number is different from quantity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/number-is-different-from-quantity/)

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[Different](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/different/)

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> [After mastery comes artistry and not before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/after-mastery-comes-artistry-and-not-before/)

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[Artistry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artistry/)

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> [The meaning of your communication is the response you get.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/the-meaning-of-your-communication-is-the-response-you-get/)

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[Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/)

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> [Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/logic-can-often-be-reversed-but-the-effect-does-not-precede-the-cause/)

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[Causes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/causes/)

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> [Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/those-who-lack-all-idea-that-it-is-possible-to-be-wrong-can-learn/)

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[Ideas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/)

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> [We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/we-do-not-know-enough-about-how-the-present-will-lead-into-the-future-2/)

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[Anger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anger/)

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> [We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/we-are-most-of-us-governed-by-epistemologies-that-we-know-to-be-wrong/)

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[Epistemology](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/epistemology/)

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> [Creative thought must always contain a random component.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/creative-thought-must-always-contain-a-random-component/)

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> [No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/no-organism-can-afford-to-be-conscious-of-matters-with-which-it-could-2/)

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> [“A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/a-little-hypocrisy-and-a-little-compromise-oils-the-wheels-of-social/)

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[Compromise](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/compromise/)

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> [It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/it-is-i-claim-nonsense-to-say-that-it-does-not-matter-which/)

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> [Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/perhaps-the-attempt-to-achieve-grace-by-identification-with-the/)

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> [But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/but-epistemology-is-always-and-inevitably-personal-the-point-of-the/)

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> [Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/prediction-can-never-be-absolutely-valid-and-therefore-science-can/)

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[Finals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/finals/)

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> [Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/rather-for-all-objects-and-experiences-there-is-a-quantity-that-has/)

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> [People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/people-are-going-to-have-to-make-themselves-predictable-or-the/)

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[Angry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/angry/)

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> [Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/numbers-are-the-product-of-counting-quantities-are-the-product-of-2/)

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> [Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/official-education-was-telling-people-almost-nothing-of-the-nature-of/)

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[Desert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desert/)

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> [There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/there-is-a-strong-tendency-in-explanatory-prose-to-invoke-quantities/)

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[Believe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believe/)

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> [Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/pathology-is-a-relatively-easy-thing-to-discuss-health-is-very/)

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[Courses](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/courses/)

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> [We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/we-do-not-know-enough-about-how-the-present-will-lead-into-the-future/)

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> [In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/in-the-transmission-of-human-culture-people-always-attempt-to-2/)

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[Cultural](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cultural/)

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> [In no system which shows mental characteristics can any part have unilateral control over the whole. In other words, the mental characteristics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/in-no-system-which-shows-mental-characteristics-can-any-part-have/)

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[Characteristics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/characteristics/)

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> [Evolution has long been badly taught. In particular, students - and even professional biologists - acquire theories of evolution without any deep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/evolution-has-long-been-badly-taught-in-particular-students-and-even/)

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> [It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/it-is-of-first-class-importance-that-our-answer-to-the-riddle-of-the/)

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> [Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/interesting-phenomena-occur-when-two-or-more-rhythmic-patterns-are/)

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> [Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/numbers-are-the-product-of-counting-quantities-are-the-product-of/)

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> [Women watched for the spectacular performances of the men, and there can be no reasonable doubt that the presence of an audience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/women-watched-for-the-spectacular-performances-of-the-men-and-there/)

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> [Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/desired-substance-things-patterns-or-sequences-of-experience-that-are/)

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> [“Earlier fundamental work of Whitehead, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Whorf, etc., as well as my own attempt to use this earlier thinking as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/earlier-fundamental-work-of-whitehead-russell-wittgenstein-carnap/)

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> [Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/our-initial-sensory-data-are-always-first-derivatives-statements/)

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> [Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/science-sometimes-improves-hypotheses-and-sometimes-disproves-them/)

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> [Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/schizophrenia-its-nature-etiology-and-the-kind-of-therapy-to-use-for/)

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> [Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition Â… we lose something of the ability to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/whenever-we-pride-ourselves-upon-finding-a-newer-stricter-way-of/)

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