Quotes by : Gregory Bateson

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

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

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

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

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

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

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

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

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

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