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.

  • All experience is subjective.

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

  • We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

  • 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.