We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components," or "Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course.


p. 29 - Mind and Nature, a necessary unity, 1988

Gregory Bateson Quotes

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, Ha! My perception, my accounting for that...

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, Ha! My perception, my accounting for that...

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, Ha! My perception, my accounting for that...

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, Ha! My perception, my accounting for that...