Because Quote by Geoffrey West

“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 with bomb sites everywhere.”

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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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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…

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“While exponential growth is a remarkable manifestation of our extraordinary accomplishments as a species, built into it are the potential seeds of our demise…

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One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on…

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“The system we have evolved critically relies on people continually wanting new cars and new cell phones, new widgets and gadgets, new clothes and…

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“Cities are sustained by similar network systems such as roads, railways, and electrical lines that transport people, energy, and resources and whose flow is…

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When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you…

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“It’s extremely difficult to kill a city! On”

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“Perhaps, then, the most surprising consequence of a visionary Theory of Everything is that it implies that on the grand scale the universe, including…

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“It is all too often forgotten that the whole point of a city is to bring people together, to facilitate interaction, and thereby to…

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“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…

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“So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?”

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