“Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.” PeopleHumansWellsWholeShowsGroupsEvolutionBalanceBehaviorTrainingPatternsEvolveBuilderDestroyers Book:The Ultimate Resource 2 Source: The Ultimate Resource 2
“When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.” WayShowsSpiritFoundHouseEffortAttitudePrinciplesSeeingStyleBuildingConstantPatternsArchitectureDevicesVoidShedOld WaysHollownessSense Of Place Author:Jonathan Hale
“No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.” ThinkingMenWorldTryingMatterShowsYoungExampleModelsPatternsConservativeLikesYoung ManAbstractAlways TryingDeviation Book:This Business of Living Source: This Business of Living
“I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.” LittlesFactsShowsBigsResultsTheoryPatternsBangsHesitationHang Over Author:Fred Hoyle