--- title: "Best Gregory Bateson Sayings" description: "Gregory Bateson was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician, and cyberneticist whose work intersected ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b136/author-gregory-bateson-7135.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b136/author-gregory-bateson-7135.jpg) # Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) Anthropologist United Kingdom **94** quotes in **516** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet 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 3 > [Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/some-tools-of-thought-are-so-blunt-that-they-are-almost-useless/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/gregory-bateson-7135_blunt_some-tools-of-thought-are-so-blunt-that_3013781.png) > [What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/what-is-the-pattern-that-connects-the-crab-to-the-lobster-and-the/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/gregory-bateson-7135_crab_what-is-the-pattern-that-connects-the-cr_1413252.png) > [The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/the-major-problems-in-the-world-are-the-result-of-the-difference/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Differences](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/differences/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b79/gregory-bateson-7135_differences_the-major-problems-in-the-world-are-the_2109524.png) > [There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/there-are-times-when-i-catch-myself-believing-that-there-is-such-a/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f28/gregory-bateson-7135_believe_there-are-times-when-i-catch-myself-beli_2069337.png) > [Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/surrender-to-alcohol-intoxication-provides-a-partial-and-subjective/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Alcohol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alcohol/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/daf/gregory-bateson-7135_alcohol_surrender-to-alcohol-intoxication-provid_1468273.png) > [If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/if-a-man-achieves-or-suffers-change-in-premises-which-are-deeply/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05a/gregory-bateson-7135_achieve_if-a-man-achieves-or-suffers-change-in-p_2673053.jpg) > [Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/synaptic-summation-is-the-technical-term-used-in-neurophysiology-for/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Brain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4f/gregory-bateson-7135_brain_synaptic-summation-is-the-technical-term_39323.png) > [A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/a-major-difficulty-is-that-the-answer-to-the-riddle-of-the-sphinx-is/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c14/gregory-bateson-7135_answers_a-major-difficulty-is-that-the-answer-to_944204.png) > [But the myth of power is, of course, a very powerful myth, and probably most people in this world more or less…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/but-the-myth-of-power-is-of-course-a-very-powerful-myth-and-probably/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa3/gregory-bateson-7135_believe_but-the-myth-of-power-is-of-course-a-ver_1761711.jpg) > [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/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/gregory-bateson-7135_cultural_in-the-transmission-of-human-culture-peo_1140563.png) > [Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man in power depends on receiving information all the time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/perhaps-there-is-no-such-thing-as-unilateral-power-after-all-the-man/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/061/gregory-bateson-7135_causes_perhaps-there-is-no-such-thing-as-unilat_2938293.png) > [What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/what-is-true-is-that-the-idea-of-power-corrupts-power-corrupts-most/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Arrangements](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arrangements/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/gregory-bateson-7135_arrangements_what-is-true-is-that-the-idea-of-power-c_234939.jpg) > [Number is different from quantity. This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing in behavioral science, any sort of imagining of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/number-is-different-from-quantity-this-difference-is-basic-for-any/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/acb/gregory-bateson-7135_different_number-is-different-from-quantity-this-d_1266664.jpg) > [In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-bateson/in-the-nature-of-the-case-an-explorer-can-never-know-what-he-is/) [Gregory Bateson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/258/gregory-bateson-7135_cases_in-the-nature-of-the-case-an-explorer-ca_1070901.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-bateson/#itemlist", "name": "Gregory Bateson Quotes", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. 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