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Gregory Bateson quotes

British Scientist May 9, 1904 – July 4, 1980

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Gregory Bateson quote: "It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty..."
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson quote: "Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no..."
Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family. Gregory Bateson
Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains. Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson quote: "The major problems in the world are the result of the..."
The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think Gregory Bateson
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? Gregory Bateson
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. Gregory Bateson
To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time. 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 DNA. Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson quote: "Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it."
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. Gregory Bateson
If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time. Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson quote: "Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even..."
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. Gregory Bateson
There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. Gregory Bateson
Gregory Bateson quote: "It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by..."
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. Gregory Bateson
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems. Gregory Bateson
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived. Gregory Bateson

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