Geoffrey West Quotes

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• When people come together, they become much more productive.
• Cities are the crucible of civilization.
• One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some…
• Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and…
• Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.
• When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World War II. I grew up…
• The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.
• I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
• Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.
• 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…
• Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.
• You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence…
• The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

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