"In the transmission of human culture, people always……" — Gregory Bateson
"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, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A."
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46 Quotes by Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson has 46 quotes on this site.
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All experience is subjective.
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Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate…
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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes…
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Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
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Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous.…
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Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
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The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people…
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Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of…
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There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can…
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My child,you are broken. Unless you know that you are broken yourself,it will be severely laborious to love the broken…
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One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself…
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What, sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane…
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Always attempt to understand whatever you see, whatever you hear and whatever you perceive. There is a hidden meaning behind…
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Be Strong And Always Attempt Or Suggest The Things That You Truly Believe In. Even If You Are Not 100%…
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