Gregory Bateson
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
education
All experience is subjective.
-Gregory Bateson
experience
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
-Gregory Bateson
fear
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
-Gregory Bateson
future
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.
-Gregory Bateson
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.
-Gregory Bateson
learning
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
-Gregory Bateson
religion
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
-Gregory Bateson
science
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