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Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.
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
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Nothing
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Wrong
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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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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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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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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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There are no monotone values in biology.
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Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.
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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.
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Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
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A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.
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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?
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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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Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.
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We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong
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Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.
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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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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.
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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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