Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth. — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Life is extraordinarily resilient. It's been around for over a billion years. — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“sublinear scaling and the associated economies of scale arising from optimizing network performance lead to bounded growth and the systematic slowing of… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“If you tell me the size of a mammal, I can use the scaling laws to tell you almost everything about the… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“The existence of these remarkable regularities strongly suggests that there is a common conceptual framework underlying all of these very different highly… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“The strengths of social interaction and the flows of information exchange are greatest between terminal units (that is, between individuals) and systematically… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“All socioeconomic activity in cities involves the interaction between people. Employment, wealth creation, innovation and ideas, the spread of infectious diseases, health… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Continuous growth and the consequent ever-increasing acceleration of the pace of life have profound consequences for the entire planet and, in particular,… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Almost all official statistics and policy documents on wages, income, gross domestic product (GDP), crime, unemployment rates, innovation rates, cost of living… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“To put it slightly differently, the rate at which we need to process energy to sustain our standard of living remained at… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on. — Geoffrey West Copy Share
Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share
“While exponential growth is a remarkable manifestation of our extraordinary accomplishments as a species, built into it are the potential seeds of our demise… — Geoffrey West Copy Share
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on… — Geoffrey West Copy Share
“The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and… — Geoffrey West Copy Share
“Cities are sustained by similar network systems such as roads, railways, and electrical lines that transport people, energy, and resources and whose flow is… — Geoffrey West Copy Share
When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you… — Geoffrey West Copy Share
“Perhaps, then, the most surprising consequence of a visionary Theory of Everything is that it implies that on the grand scale the universe, including… — Geoffrey West Copy Share
“It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share
“The integration of these two kinds of networks, namely, the requirement that socioeconomic interaction represented by space-filling fractal-like social networks must be anchored to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share
“So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?” — Geoffrey West Copy Share
“The existence of these remarkable regularities strongly suggests that there is a common conceptual framework underlying all of these very different highly complex phenomena… — Geoffrey West Copy Share
“Unfortunately, however, there is another serious catch. Theory dictates that such discoveries must occur at an increasingly accelerating pace; the time between successive innovations… — Geoffrey West Copy Share
