Words matter. These are the best Gregory Bateson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
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?
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
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.
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.
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.
Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.
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.
All experience is subjective.
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.
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.
Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.
Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.
