Quote by Geoffrey West Download Open image ““the population bomb has been swept under the rug,”” — Geoffrey West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Having commodified nature, we're eating the shrapnel of a worldwide homogeneity bomb.” — Adam Leith Gollner Copy Share Image
“The atomic bomb brings the men home from every quarter of the earth because the war is not so much over as stunned back… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“You know, we worry about the Bomb, a thought interceded, and yet just look around: there are millions of people out there, just like… — Etienne de L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Don't ask who planted the bomb; in those days there were many such planters, many gardeners of violence.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“My grandmother’s is the world that dropped the bomb—itself a slick object—so elegantly smooth it managed to slip past American consciousness, past enemy lines.” — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“And, as the tiny lights drift into the blackness, the people pray that others around the world will remember Hiroshima and work for world… — Laurence Yep Copy Share Image
“The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“A streetcar rattled by on the tracks as I read the headline: a single American bomb had destroyed a Japanese city. My first thought:… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“What does a car bomb say about poverty, or the execution of a rural mayor explain about disenfranchisement?... The war had become, it it… — Daniel Alarcón Copy Share Image
“Long ago when they first invented the atomic bomb people used to worry about its going off and killing everybody, but they didn't know… — John Cheever 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?” — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
