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Gregory Bateson
Age: 76 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 9
Died: 1980
Died: July 4
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A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.
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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
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.
Gregory Bateson
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
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Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].
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Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.
Gregory Bateson
We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.
Gregory Bateson
Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.
Gregory Bateson
Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.
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Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.
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There are no monotone values in biology.
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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
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Multiple descriptions are better than one.
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There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.
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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.
Gregory Bateson
I shall argue that the problem of grace is fundamentally a problem of integration and what is to be integrated is the diverse parts of the mind - especially those multiple levels of which one extreme is called 'consciousness' and the other the 'unconscious'
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Science probes it does not prove.
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In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.
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After mastery comes artistry and not before.
Gregory Bateson
Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.
Gregory Bateson
