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Gregory Bateson Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated Oct 2023

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We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

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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.

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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.

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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 neurons A and B.

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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

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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.

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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.

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Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

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Number is different from quantity.

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Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

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Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

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Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

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Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

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Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

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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.

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It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

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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.

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It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

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Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.

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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.

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