All Gregory Bateson Quotes
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
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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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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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Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.
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A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.
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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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Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.
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Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.
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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.
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