Gregory Bateson Quotes

Gregory Bateson
British Scientist
Born: May 9, 1904
Died: Jul 4, 1980
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Related authors: Alfred Russel Wallace Arthur Eddington Derek Harold Richard Barton Humphry Davy John Sulston Mary Douglas Mary Leakey Thomas Browne
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 Generation Culture People Values Parents Geared Attempt Fails Because Pass Always Cultural Replicate Human Next Transmission Next Generation Skills
All experience is subjective. Gregory Bateson
Experience Subjective
Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family. Gregory Bateson
Family Training Members Religious Outside Course Source Families Get Any
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. Gregory Bateson
Future Will Enough About Lead Know How Present
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 History Man Change Matter Say Claim Unpredictable Individual Makes Does Nonsense Precisely Which Acted
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. Gregory Bateson
Cause Logic Effect Model Poor
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 Nature People Nothing Those Telling Almost Almost Nothing Redwood Forests Official Plains Deserts Things
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. Gregory Bateson
Time Think Sets Adjectives Qualities Advisable Attributes Least Refer Expect Interactions Straight Two
Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money. Gregory Bateson
Money Better Valued More Supposedly Always Than Less Less Money
Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B. Gregory Bateson
Those Some Only Neurons Fired Combination Term Which Used Technical
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. Gregory Bateson
War Fear Every Fact Make Move In Fact Next
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. Gregory Bateson
Impossible Single Invoking Principle Quantity Any Pattern Explain
Number is different from quantity. Gregory Bateson
Quantity Different Number

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