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Geoffrey West
Geoffrey West
British Physicist
Born: 1940
Cities City Everything Life People You
Related authors: Aaron Klug Cecil Frank Powell Charles Glover Barkla John Polkinghorne Paul Dirac Peter Higgs William Henry Bragg
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
Innovation Wealth Creation Cities Facilitate Physicist Entropy Ideas Doing Interaction Order Form Create Viewpoint Enhance Growth
Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth. Geoffrey West
Life Cities Roads Obvious Call Metaphors Forth
Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change. Geoffrey West
Change Once Ourselves Put Traded Stability Requires Away Growth Treadmill Started
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
Destruction Thought Feeling Own Organ Bit Ways City Some Slums My Own Both Could Lead Development Ultimately Tumor Unhealthy Special Grown
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
Life Me History You Will Long Live Pulse Everything Ninth Tell Pretty Per About Rate Physiology Take How Branch Mammal Mature Offspring Going Size Cent Length Much Many Level
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
Animal Dog Energy Horse Than Cells Sustain Bigger Tissue Working Your Hard Less Harder Needed
Cities are the crucible of civilization. Geoffrey West
Cities Civilization Crucible
Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring. Geoffrey West
Cities Stay Boring Exciting
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. Geoffrey West
People More Individual True Powerful Than Six Just China Average Connection Four Here
Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals. Geoffrey West
Our Cities Physical Individuals Just Interactions Manifestation Your Grouping
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
You Behavior Enormous Complex Complex System System Evolved City Components Emergence Constrain Laws Could Like Without Order Them Organism Resilient Number
A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up. Geoffrey West
Great People Big City Magnet Up Role Sucking Plays
The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science. Geoffrey West
Science Physics Paradigm Data Powerful Most Most Powerful Prediction Theory

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