“Short-term reward, long-term damage: greed over curiosity.” — Nora Bateson Curiosity Copy Share Image
“Finding where exactly the outside world ends and I begin—is not so easy.” — Nora Bateson Finding Copy Share Image
“Good questions do not have answers at all, let alone right or wrong ones.” — Nora Bateson Answer Copy Share Image
“Mutual learning happens in the entropy; we need the confusion to release the new.” — Nora Bateson Entropy Copy Share Image
“To lock down the delicate filigree of life in explanation is to lose it, but not to see it is disastrous.” — Nora Bateson Disastrous Copy Share Image
“The complex system that is the body is a field of ways of knowing, all of which work together ecologically to provide… — Nora Bateson Knowing Copy Share Image
“Treating symptoms, teaching to the test, gathering statistics… all of these forms of engagement have something in common… blindness to the complexity… — Nora Bateson Education Copy Share Image
“The prescribed mode of thinking that is generated by our educational systems is not conducive to the sort of thinking that new… — Nora Bateson Education Copy Share Image
“Can the potential isolation of living on an island of our own frame of reference be banished by simple concurrences that become… — Nora Bateson Communication Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the responsibility for the world the child grows to understand lies in the collective impressions that the village provides.” — Nora Bateson Children Copy Share Image
“Life is not divisible into the departments of a university, nor is our understanding of life greatly increased by standard research practices,… — Nora Bateson Education Copy Share Image
“As I see it, the advances in scientific thought come from a combination of loose and strict thinking, and this combination is… — Nora Bateson Psychology Copy Share Image
“But ask anyone, such is the nature of relationship. We carry each other’s pain. We learn together, or we do not learn.” — Nora Bateson Nature Copy Share Image
