#anti

Number is different from quantity. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#number #quantity

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

#becomes #below #deprived #experiences #fall

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

— Gregory Bateson

#explain #impossible #invoking #pattern #principle

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#energy #explain #explanations #genesis #i

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#arts #aspiration #available #color #every

I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#comedies #done #feel #i #i feel

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#arts #gigantic #men #racket #run

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature. ↗

— Paul Berg

#barriers #breach #breeding #concern #customary

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#been #enough #liberal #lost #lot

Writing is an antidote for loneliness. ↗

— Steven Berkoff

#loneliness #writing