Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. – Gregory Bateson
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. – Gregory Bateson

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. – Gregory Bateson
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. – Gregory Bateson
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. – Gregory Bateson
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
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald – all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil. – Pliny, about the opal