"Cities are the crucible of civilization." — Geoffrey West

"Cities are the crucible of civilization."

— Geoffrey West

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13 Quotes by Geoffrey West

Geoffrey West has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When people come together, they become much more productive.
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even…
Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much…
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…
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,…
Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires…
You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of…
The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

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More Cities Quotes

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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the… — Aristophanes
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one… — Paul Auster
In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were… — Karen Armstrong
I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild… — Margaret Atwood
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms… — Diane Ackerman
On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million… — Diane Ackerman
There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence.… — Michelle Bachelet
London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's… — David Bailey
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need… — Cleveland Abbe
I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that… — Alec Baldwin

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