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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• Gregory Bateson:

  Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

• Gregory Bateson:

  Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

• Gregory Bateson:

  Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

• Gregory Bateson:

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

• Gregory Bateson:

  Number is different from quantity.

• Gregory Bateson:

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

• Gregory Bateson:

  Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that qua

• Gregory Bateson:

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

• Gregory Bateson:

  To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to

• Gregory Bateson:

  We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.