Geoffrey West Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.”

“I've always wanted to find the rules that govern everything. It's amazing that such rules exist. It's even more amazing that we can find them.”

“It's hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.”

“The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.”

“A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food.”

“On average, an individual doesn't have a powerful connection with more than four to six people, and that's just as true here in the U.S. as it is in China.”

“Every fundamental law has exceptions. But you still need the law or else all you have is observations that don't make sense. And that's not science. That's just taking notes.”

“If you ask people why they move to the city, they always give the same reasons. They've come to get a job or follow their friends or to be at the center of a scene. That's why we pay the high rent. Cities are all about the people, not the infrastructure.”

“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.”