Science Quote by Geoffrey West Download Open image ““TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CITIES”” — Geoffrey West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Science
My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we should be happier in our cities were we to respond to them as to nature or dreams: as objects of exploration, investigation… — Elizabeth Wilson Copy Share Image
“Consequently, a wide variety of perspectives and frameworks have been developed for trying to understand what cities are, how they arose, how they function,… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“It is time to expand what has been a romantic attachment to the ornaments of nature into a commitment to reshape the city in… — Anne Whiston Spirn Copy Share Image
“The city (regardless which one it is) does provide a certain degree of sophistication and intellectualism. It offers the challenge of professional matters. It… — Anne LaBastille Copy Share Image
“In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with… — Sally A. Kitt Chappell Copy Share Image
“Urban life itself acts as a giant particle accelerator. When people move to the city, they start to do everything faster.” — Carl Honoré Copy Share Image
When we deal with cities we are dealing with life at its most complex and intense. Planners are guided by principles derived from the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Imagine cities that resemble forests, technologies that heal rather than harm, and societies rooted in balance and cooperation.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
“But ideal cities are very much the product of their own ages. Designed as complete urban statements, they bear the unmistakable imprint of their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The city was a machine of its own, continuously producing. We were constantly pumped out through its assembly line, in different forms or models.… — Cristina Martin 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
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
“Galton’s gospel of eugenics found fertile soil in Britain, in the intellectual salons of Europe, and in the United States. Beginning in the early… — Joseph Loconte Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
“Love. Such a sweet, simple word. A word I've been searching for my entire life - but especially since I met Eio - and… — Jessica Khoury Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
