Geoffrey West Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Geoffrey West quotes and sayings page 2 (physicist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 29 we have.
“Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.”
“Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.”
“Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.”
“The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.”
“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 sustain a gram of tissue.”
“Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.”
“My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on underlying generic principles that can be made in a - put into a predictive framework. That's the quest.”
“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.”
“Life is extraordinarily resilient. It's been around for over a billion years.”
“Cities are the crucible of civilization.”
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