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“I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.”

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Charles Jencks, born on June 21, 1939, is a renowned landscape architect of Scottish origin. His work is globally recognized for its unique style and profound understanding of the natural environment. more

“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.”

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“I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.”

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“I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.”

Ifs Thinking Want Patient Cancer Cancer Patients

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“What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.”

People Interesting Most Interesting Interesting Things

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“It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.”

Should Mark Icons Iconoclasm

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“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.”

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“A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.”

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“Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.”

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“I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.”

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