It inaugurates a miraculous sequence that brings to life artistically a simple but enormous scientific idea: the fusion of space, time, and matter.
"Rather than starting tiny and letting things grow organically, we started thinking about these enormous, completely impractical ideas.
He was a good father to me and I liked talking to him because he had this enormous love of ideas.
It had plenty of difficulties to negotiate – then as now, a hostile and protective press, a government to convince of its ideas, enormous practical and technical hurdles.
For inspiration, Sant'Egidio's founder, a remarkable historian, Andrea Riccardi, always brings new ideas, and a series of speeches from some of the world's great religious and humanist leaders offer an enormous menu of ideas and challenges.
"I had no idea how enormous this was," she said.
It is also an idea with enormous potential, judging by the $120 million-plus that Wrenchead has drawn from investors since it was incorporated just over a year ago.
He makes large claims for Berlin's work, animated as it is, he writes, "by a single idea of enormous subversive force".
The only part Mr. Heller, 37, did not build was the new wing put on a few years ago, which included enormous windows -- his idea -- that frame the view of trees and old stone walls.
