Maps Quote by Gregory Bateson

Number is different from quantity.

— Gregory Bateson

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception,…

— Gregory Bateson

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

— Gregory Bateson

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…

— Gregory Bateson

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

— Gregory Bateson

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

— Gregory Bateson

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

— Gregory Bateson

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. It differs, however, from most other branches of human activity in…

— Gregory Bateson

Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life,…

— Gregory Bateson

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those…

— Gregory Bateson

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

— Gregory Bateson

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

— Gregory Bateson