“In our era, a work of carpentry is not considered to be on the same level as a work of physics. The thing made by the carpenter is, in relative value, considered lower than a minor paper written by a physicist and deposited into a minor journal….Yet this is profoundly wrong-headed…
“I simply believe in that it is factually wrong, and that the works of creation made by a carpenter, or by a tile-mason, or a tile-maker, or any other maker or craftsman do have a level of difficulty, intellectually, and a level of attainment— which is potentially as great as the greatest works of theoretical physics, sometimes perhaps far greater.”
- Christopher Alexander, The Nature of Order, Book 3, A Vision of a Living World, p 492-494
