“If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.” IfsLooksWholeBuildingDatingBottomDetailsVersionsHistorianGothicColumnsDinosaursBackbone Author:Charles Jencks
“If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.” IfsLooksSelfTreeComputerMethodProductionsArchitectureComplexityBranchesRepetitionLeafsVariationSimilarityTree Branches Author:Charles Jencks
“I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.” IfsThinkingWantPatientCancerCancer Patients Author:Charles Jencks
“You have to believe in a placebo or it wont work, but if it works, its obviously working in some indirect way, through feedback in the immune system, let us say, or in the willpower of the patient to take a more strenuous exercise in their own therapy.” IfsWayBelieveExercisePatientTherapyWillpowerFeedbackImmuneImmune SystemIndirectPlacebo Author:Charles Jencks
“You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.” IfsKnowsLooksSaidFactsCultureNaturalTalkingEvolutionBiggerExcitingHorseScalesFasterEvolveCosmicPhasesSelectionNatural SelectionPigeons Author:Charles Jencks
“What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?” IfsUniverseGardenCelebration Author:Charles Jencks
