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Gregory Bateson Quotes

British - Scientist | May 9, 1904 - July 4, 1980

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

Gregory Bateson

Impossible Explain Single Quantity

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.

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Change Future History Man Say Claim

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

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Logic Poor Model Effect Cause

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

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Family Training Outside Source Get

Number is different from quantity.

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Quantity Different Number

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.

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Education Nature People Nothing

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

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Value Fall Toxic Quantity Above

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

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Science Art Religion Sleep Commerce

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.

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Time Think Two Expect Straight

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

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Money Better More Always Valued

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

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Numbers Product Next Measurement

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.

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Fired Technical Used Combination

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