Gregory Bateson Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• 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

  Skills, People, Parent

  "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1979.

• Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. 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.

  Gregory Bateson

  Sex, Fall, Simplicity

• 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.

  Gregory Bateson

  Fall, Toxic, Variables

  "Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1979.

• There are no monotone "values" in biology.

  Gregory Bateson

  Biology, Values

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