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
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. – Gregory Bateson
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. – Gregory Bateson
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