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

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Career Dark Doing Matter Most Physics Spent String String Theory Theory

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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.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Cities Desperately Framework Generic Made Means Need Principles Provocative Put Quest Relying Scientific Serious Statement Theory Underlying

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Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals.

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Topics: Cities Grouping Individuals Interactions Just Manifestation Our Physical Your

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Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

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Topics: Away Change Growth Once Ourselves Put Requires Stability Started Traded Treadmill

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You could not have evolved a complex system like a city or an organism - with an enormous number of components - without the emergence of laws that constrain their behavior in order for them to be resilient.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Behavior City Complex Components Constrain Could Emergence Enormous Evolved Laws Like Number Order Organism Resilient System Them Without You

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Life is extraordinarily resilient. It's been around for over a billion years.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Around Been Billion Extraordinarily Life Over Resilient Years

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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 some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: About Amazing Cases Culture Develop Economy Even Functional Kind Level Organization Own Remarkable Remarkably Resilient Slums Social Some Things

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A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.

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Topics: Big City Great Magnet People Plays Role Sucking Up

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The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

~Geoffrey West

Topics: Data Most Most Powerful Paradigm Physics Powerful Prediction Science Theory

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Physicist

Born: Unknown

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