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> [When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you go from a big city to a small city or if you go from one country…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/when-you-look-at-a-city-you-know-it-looks-so-unique-you-feel-this/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

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## More by Geoffrey West

> [I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/i-spent-most-of-my-career-doing-high-energy-physics-quarks-dark/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/your-cells-are-not-working-as-hard-as-your-dog-s-but-harder-than-your/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [“While exponential growth is a remarkable manifestation of our extraordinary accomplishments as a species, built into it are the potential seeds of our demise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/while-exponential-growth-is-a-remarkable-manifestation-of-our/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/one-of-the-remarkable-things-about-slums-is-that-they-do-develop/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [“The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/the-system-we-have-evolved-critically-relies-on-people-continually/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [“Cities are sustained by similar network systems such as roads, railways, and electrical lines that transport people, energy, and resources and whose flow is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/cities-are-sustained-by-similar-network-systems-such-as-roads/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/when-you-look-at-a-city-you-know-it-looks-so-unique-you-feel-this/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [“It’s extremely difficult to kill a city! On”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/it-s-extremely-difficult-to-kill-a-city-on/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [“Perhaps, then, the most surprising consequence of a visionary Theory of Everything is that it implies that on the grand scale the universe, including…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/perhaps-then-the-most-surprising-consequence-of-a-visionary-theory-of/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [“It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/it-is-all-too-often-forgotten-that-the-whole-point-of-a-city-is-to/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/the-integration-of-these-two-kinds-of-networks-namely-the-requirement/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [“So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/so-why-do-almost-all-cities-remain-viable-whereas-the-vast-majority/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [“The existence of these remarkable regularities strongly suggests that there is a common conceptual framework underlying all of these very different highly complex phenomena…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/the-existence-of-these-remarkable-regularities-strongly-suggests-that/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [“Unfortunately, however, there is another serious catch. Theory dictates that such discoveries must occur at an increasingly accelerating pace; the time between successive innovations…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/unfortunately-however-there-is-another-serious-catch-theory-dictates/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

> [Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/exciting-cities-stay-exciting-and-boring-cities-stay-boring/)

[Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/)

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