Quotes by Charles Jencks

Charles Jencks

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.

Hate

Medical Profession

Teeth

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

House

One Liner

Symbols

Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

Cant

Dialogue

Universe

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

Cancer

Thinking

Want

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.

Enlightenment

Ideas

Writing

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

Cancer

Men

Real

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.

Looks

Self

Tree

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.

Dating

Details

Looks

It’s a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Iconoclasm

Icons

Should

Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.

Numbers

Running

Sunflower

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Beautiful

Believe

Cancer

Cant

Celebration

Culture

Dating

Details

Dialogue

Elements

Enlightenment

Exercise

Garden

Hate

Horse

House

Iconoclasm

Icons

Ideas

Ifs

Interesting

Looks

Medical Profession

Medicine

Men

Most Interesting

Numbers

One Liner

People

Perspective

Philosophy

Real

Running

Self

Should

Space

Sunflower

Symbols

Talking

Teeth

Thinking

Tree

Universe

Want

Way

Writing

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Quotes by Charles Jencks

Charles Jencks

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.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

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

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.

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

It’s a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.

Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.

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