Gregory Bateson Quotes

It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and ...

Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes...

We are beginning to play with ideas of ecology, and although we immediately trivialize these into co...

The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.

We commonly speak as though a single 'thing' could 'have' some characteristic. A stone, we say, is '...

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience the larger whole is primarily be...

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next gen...

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seasho...

Earlier fundamental work of Whitehead, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Whorf, etc., as well as my own...

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

All experience is subjective.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.