It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems. Gregory Bateson actualanswercivilisation share on social
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. Gregory Bateson attemptculturalculture share on social
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. Gregory Bateson effectlogicmodel Change image and share on social
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. Gregory Bateson factfearhasten Change image and share on social
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. Gregory Bateson deserteducationforest Change image and share on social
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. Gregory Bateson anthropologistdevotefifty Change image and share on social
It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity. Gregory Bateson explainimpossibleinvoke Change image and share on social
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. Gregory Bateson actchangeclaim Change image and share on social
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. Gregory Bateson adjectiveadvisableattribute Change image and share on social
