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"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."
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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."
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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."
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"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."
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"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."
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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."
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"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."
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"The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics."
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"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
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"The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult."
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"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."
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"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
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"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
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"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."
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"I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science."
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"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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"One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course."
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"The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me."
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"The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands."
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