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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 go from a big city to a small city or if you go from one country to another. Cities look very different, often. They even feel very different. You know, and they are, of course. They certainly are.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Another Big Big City Certainly Cities City Country Course Different Even Feel Go Kind Know Look Looks Often One Country Small Unique Uniqueness Very You

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Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Call Cities Forth Life Metaphors Obvious Roads

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Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit of both.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Bit Both City Could Destruction Development Feeling Grown Lead My Own Organ Own Slums Some Special Thought Tumor Ultimately Unhealthy Ways

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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.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: About Branch Cent Everything Going History How Length Level Life Live Long Many Mature Me Much Ninth Offspring Per Physiology Pretty Pulse Rate Size Take Tell Will You I Can

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Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Conjecture Everything Feeling Here Look Narcissistic Nature Obeying Out Sometimes Think Wonderfully I Think

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Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don't.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Cities Companies Crazy Crazy People People Tolerate

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Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are confronted by having cities. That's where they - all these problems come from.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Cities Come Confronted Disease Economies Energy Environment Finance Global Global Warming Having Health Impact Origins Pollution Problems Warming Where

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We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicist's viewpoint, entropy.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Cities Create Creation Doing Enhance Entropy Facilitate Form Growth Ideas Innovation Interaction Order Physicist Viewpoint Wealth

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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 sustain a gram of tissue.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Animal Bigger Cells Dog Energy Hard Harder Horse Less Needed Sustain Than Tissue Working Your

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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.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Always Amazing Even Everything Exist Find Govern More Rules Them Wanted

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Physicist

Born: Unknown

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