The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened. — Gregory Bateson
Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be — Gregory Bateson
There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable — Gregory Bateson
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as — Gregory Bateson
It is to the riddle of the sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. — Gregory Bateson
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the riddle of the sphinx should be in — Gregory Bateson
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. — Gregory Bateson
Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money. — Gregory Bateson
Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family. — 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 — Gregory Bateson