The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

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.