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After mastery comes artistry and not before.

Gregory Bateson

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Gregory Bateson
Age: 76 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 9
Died: 1980
Died: July 4
Anthropologist
Biologist
Film Director
Linguist
Philosopher
Psychologist
Semiotician
Sociologist
Grantchester
Cambridgeshire
Artistry
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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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Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.
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Science probes it does not prove.
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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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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
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Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].
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Multiple descriptions are better than one.
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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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The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
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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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In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.
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Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.
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People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.
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The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.
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No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.
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The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.
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The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.
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We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components, or Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course.
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Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.
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