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“Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.”

Gregory Bateson · Religion

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Gregory Bateson

All experience is subjective.

Experience

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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.

Learning

Gregory Bateson

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Education

Gregory Bateson

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

Fear