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Gregory Bateson
Age: 76 †
Born: 1904
Born: May 9
Died: 1980
Died: July 4
Anthropologist
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We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.
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
Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].
Gregory Bateson
Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.
Gregory Bateson
Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.
Gregory Bateson
People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.
Gregory Bateson
After mastery comes artistry and not before.
Gregory Bateson
The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.
Gregory Bateson
We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong
Gregory Bateson
The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.
Gregory Bateson
There are no monotone values in biology.
Gregory Bateson
Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.
Gregory Bateson
The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.
Gregory Bateson
Information is a difference that makes a difference.
Gregory Bateson
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.
Gregory Bateson
In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.
Gregory Bateson
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.
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
The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.
Gregory Bateson
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
Gregory Bateson