In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique..

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 w….

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant..

You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. ….

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather sev….

Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relatio….

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 ….

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

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

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 ….

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

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 ….

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

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 call….

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,….

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite p….

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard ab….

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 scientif….

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes.….

The cell is a city of production centres, each part working away like mad, and it's co-ordinated. Six trillion cells in a body - you can't help but b….

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