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It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

~Gregory Bateson

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It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

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Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

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Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

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Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

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Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

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Number is different from quantity.

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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: May 9th, 1904

Died: July 4th, 1980

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