3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Gregory Bateson 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.
3 December 2020 Gregory Bateson We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
3 December 2020 Gregory Bateson 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.
3 December 2020 Gregory Bateson Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
