"Tell me the size of a mammal and……" — Geoffrey West
"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 life history, such as how long it is going to live, how many offspring it will have, the length of its aorta, how long it will take to mature, what is the pulse rate in the ninth branch of its circuitry."
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Geoffrey West
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13 Quotes by Geoffrey West
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When people come together, they become much more productive.
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Cities are the crucible of civilization.
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One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even…
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Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.
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When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World…
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The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.
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I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
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Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.
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When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know,…
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Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires…
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You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of…
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The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
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