William Bateson Quotes

#1. ... for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown

Herman Melville

#2. Women; can't live with em, can't kill em

Tom Arnold

#3. We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

Hirohito

#4. The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief

Umberto Eco

#5. I would trust Shakespeare, but I would not trust a committee of Shakespeares.

William Bateson

#6. Treasure your exceptions.

William Bateson

#7. When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species.

William Bateson

#8. Though we must hold to our faith in the evolution of species, there is little evidence as to how it has come about, and no clear proof that the process is continuing in any considerable degree at the present time.

William Bateson

#9. Of baking pans so that we can make individual brownies with

Paula Danziger

#10. Make a destination of the greater truth.

Bob Seger