Cases Quote by Gregory Bateson

“In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.”

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Number is different from quantity.

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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! My perception,…

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Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of…

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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 wasn't quite…

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Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.

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What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who…

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“A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life”

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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 activity in…

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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 of life,…

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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 sink those…

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Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

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Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics.

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