Science sometimes improves hypotheses and sometimes disproves them. But proof would be another matter and perhaps never occurs except in the realms of totally abstract tautology. We can sometimes say that if such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such abstract suppositions or postulates are given, then such and such must follow absolutely. But the truth about what can be perceived or arrived at by induction from perception is something else again.
Gregory BatesonNo organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.
Gregory BatesonLogic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].
Gregory Bateson