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Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. – Gregory Bateson

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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

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Future
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Gregory Bateson
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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

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Learning
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An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: “If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?” “No,” said the priest, “not if you did not know.” “Then why,” asked the Inuit earnestly, “did you tell me?” – Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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Religion

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. – Hannah More

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Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. – Alan Turing

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Theres a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world. – Tim Heidecker

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Religion

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Music is a performance and needs the audience. – Michael Tippett

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