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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 29 quotes by Geoffrey West Professor Geoffrey Brian West (born 1940 in Taunton, Somerset) is a British theoretical physicist, former president and distinguished professor of the Santa Fe Institute. He is one of the leading scientists working on a scientific model of cities. Among other things his work states that with the doubling of a city's size, services per capita will generally increase by 15%. Read full biography of Geoffrey West → 1 2 3 Ctrl → 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... → 0 We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a... → 0 Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are... → 0 A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up. 0 Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don't. 0 The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science. 0 Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe. 0 Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring. 0 Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change. 0 Sometimes, I look out at nature and I think, 'Everything here is obeying my conjecture.' It's a wonderfully narcissistic feeling. 0 My provocative statement is that we desperately need a serious, scientific theory of cities and scientific theory means quantifiable, relying on... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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