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# Gregory Bateson

(1904–1980)   Anthropologist   United Kingdom

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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 · Page 2

> [There are no monotone "values" in biology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/there-are-no-monotone-values-in-biology/)

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[Biology](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/biology/)

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> [It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/it-is-impossible-in-principle-to-explain-any-pattern-by-invoking-a/)

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> [Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/let-s-not-pretend-that-mental-phenomena-can-be-mapped-on-to-the/)

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> [Without context words and actions have no meaning at all](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/without-context-words-and-actions-have-no-meaning-at-all/)

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[Action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/action/)

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> [The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/the-rules-of-the-universe-that-we-think-we-know-are-buried-deep-in/)

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> [Things have to be done fast in America , and therefore therapy has to be brief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/things-have-to-be-done-fast-in-america-and-therefore-therapy-has-to/)

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[America](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/america/)

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> [The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/the-map-is-not-the-territory-coined-by-alfred-korzybski-and-the-name/)

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[Geography](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/geography/)

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> [Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/money-is-always-transitively-valued-more-money-is-supposedly-always/)

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[Money](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/money/)

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> [The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/the-world-is-indeed-only-a-small-tide-pool-disturb-one-part-and-the/)

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> [Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/members-of-weakly-religious-families-get-of-course-no-religious/)

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[Family](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/family/)

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> [Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/whatever-the-ups-and-downs-of-detail-within-our-limited-experience/)

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[Attitude](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attitude/)

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> [To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/to-think-straight-it-is-advisable-to-expect-all-qualities-and/)

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> [We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/we-are-discovering-today-that-several-of-the-premises-which-are/)

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> [There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/there-are-many-matters-and-many-circumstances-in-which-consciousness/)

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> [We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/we-can-never-be-quite-clear-whether-we-are-referring-to-the-world-as/)

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> [Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/yes-metaphor-that-s-how-the-whole-fabric-of-mental-interconnections/)

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[Alive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alive/)

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> [It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/it-is-to-the-riddle-of-the-sphinx-that-i-have-devoted-fifty-years-of/)

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> [Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/most-of-us-have-lost-that-sense-of-unity-of-biosphere-and-humanity/)

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> [If it were possible adequately to present the whole of a culture, stressing every aspect exactly as appears in the culture itself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/if-it-were-possible-adequately-to-present-the-whole-of-a-culture/)

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> [I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and what is to be integrated is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/i-shall-argue-that-the-problem-of-grace-is-fundamentally-a-problem-of/)

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> [What we mean by information - the elementary unit of information - is a difference which makes a difference, and it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/what-we-mean-by-information-the-elementary-unit-of-information-is-a/)

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> [If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/if-we-pursue-this-matter-further-we-shall-be-told-that-the-stable/)

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> [Somebody was saying to Picasso that he ought to make pictures of things the way they are-objective pictures. He mumbled that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/somebody-was-saying-to-picasso-that-he-ought-to-make-pictures-of/)

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[Artist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/)

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> [Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. It differs, however, from most other branches of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/science-like-art-religion-commerce-warfare-and-even-sleep-is-based-on/)

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> [The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/the-only-way-out-is-spiritual-intellectual-and-emotional-revolution/)

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

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[Behavior](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/behavior/)

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> [The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/the-pathology-is-to-want-control-not-that-you-ever-get-it-because-of/)

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[Control](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/control/)

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> [The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/the-creature-that-wins-against-its-environment-destroys-itself/)

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> [Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/science-like-art-religion-commerce-warfare-and-even-sleep-is-based-on-2/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [ Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored \[as in logic\]. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/logic-cannot-model-causal-systems-and-paradox-is-generated-when-time/)

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> [A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/a-man-walking-is-never-in-balance-but-always-correcting-for-imbalance/)

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> [Information is a difference that makes a difference.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/information-is-a-difference-that-makes-a-difference/)

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[Data](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/data/)

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> [Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/play-is-the-establishment-and-exploration-of-relationship/)

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> [Information consists of differences that make a difference.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/information-consists-of-differences-that-make-a-difference/)

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[Data](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/data/)

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> [Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/still-more-astonishing-is-that-world-of-rigorous-fantasy-we-call/)

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> [Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/wisdom-is-the-intelligence-of-the-system-as-a-whole/)

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[Intelligence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/intelligence/)

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> [Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/still-more-astonishing-is-that-world-of-rigorous-fantasy-which-we/)

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> [Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/every-move-we-make-in-fear-of-the-next-war-in-fact-hastens-it/)

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> [Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/language-commonly-stresses-only-one-side-of-any-interaction/)

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[Interaction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/interaction/)

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> [The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/the-wise-legislator-will-only-rarely-initiate-a-new-rule-of-behaviour/)

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