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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.

~Charles Jencks

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

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Any Cancer Deeply Dig Live Patient Think Too Want You I Think

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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 called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.

~Charles Jencks

Topics: Architecture Art Artists Because Become Been Between Car Down Fact In Fact Inspired Just Most Park Parks Perfect Piece Pieces Sculpture Should Site Things Working Wrote

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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 be moved.

~Charles Jencks

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Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that.

~Charles Jencks

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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.

~Charles Jencks

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: June 21st, 1939

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