Creativity comes from discovering the new within a structure already latent in the present; respect for what is leads to the most beautiful discoveries.

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• Creativity is not inserting entirely new structure but revealing what is already there, serving the wholeness.claim0.867
  Reconception of creativity as attentive revelation rather than arbitrary invention.
• The creation of morphological novelty, biological invention, artistic creation, architectural invention ... may all be understood as products of a relatively simple process of intensifying existing latent centers.claim0.821
  Claim that the emergence of new forms, often considered mysterious, is explainable through repeated intensification of latent structure.
• Inventiveness, creativity, and discovery are directly proportional to the number and kinds of variables in an environment.claim0.811
  The central axiom of Nicholson's theory, establishing the causal relationship between environmental complexity and human cognitive/creative capacity.
• In any environment, both the degree of inventiveness and creativity, and the possibility of discovery, are directly proportional to the number and kinds of variables in itconcept0.795
  The core assertion of the Theory of Loose Parts.
• Creativityconcept0.790
  The emergent human capacity that Nicholson argues is enabled by loose parts in environments.
• The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.claim0.788
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.782
• A structure is truly generated, and perceived as having life, only when it has unfolded from a nice, beautiful sequence of differentiations.claim0.774
  The most profound claim of the chapter: the niceness of the sequence is directly perceptible in the built form and is the ultimate source of living quality.