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
Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions. – Gregory Bateson
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. – Gregory Bateson
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. – Gregory Bateson
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg