Gregory Bateson Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Number is different from quantity.”

“There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.”

“It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.”

“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.”

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