"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."

Philip Warren Anderson, American Scientist

Architecture, Art, Admiration, Culture

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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"

Mensah Oteh, Nigerian Author

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Steven Magee, British Author

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"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."

David Levithan, American Author

Architecture, Space, Structure, Development, Progress

"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"

"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."

"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."

"Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener."

"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."

"The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in."

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

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"I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science."

"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."

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"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe."

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