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Cities are the crucible of civilization.
Geoffrey West / Physicist
Cities
Civilization
Crucible
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Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don't.
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Cities
Crazy
Crazy People
People
Tolerate
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When people come together, they become much more productive.
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People
Productive
Together
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Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring.
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Cities
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The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.
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Infrastructure
Per
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A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up.
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Magnet
Great City People
Plays
Sucking
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Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads arteries and so forth.
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Arteries
Cities
Metaphor
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Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.
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Cities
Obvious
Call
Forth
Metaphors
Roads
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Life is extraordinarily resilient. It's been around for over a billion years.
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Resilient
Billion
Extraordinarily
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Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.
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Dependent
Fabric
Woven
Scale
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I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
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Dark
Physics
String Theory
Theory
Spent
String
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The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
Geoffrey West / Physicist
Data
Most Powerful
Paradigm
Physics
Powerful
Theory
Prediction
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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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Cities
Manifestation
Grouping
Individuals
Interactions
Physical
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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.
Geoffrey West / Physicist
Stability
Requires
Treadmill
Traded
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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.
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Conjecture
Narcissistic
Obeying
Wonderfully
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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.
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Govern
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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.
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Animal
Horse
Sustain
Tissue
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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.
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Average
People True More
Connection
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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.
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California
Extraordinary
Recovering
World War Ii
Bomb
War World Black
Sites
World War
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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.
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Cities
Creation
Entropy
Facilitate
Innovation
Interaction
Physicist
Wealth
Enhance
Viewpoint
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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.
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Notes
Exceptions
Fundamental
Observations
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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 / Physicist
Behavior
Cities
Constrain
Emergence
Enormous
Law
Order
Resilient
Complex
Complex System
Organism
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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 / Physicist
Amazing
Cases
Culture
Economy
Levels
Organization
Remarkable
Resilient
Slums
Social Organization
Functional
Develop
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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.
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Finance
Cities
Disease
Environment
Global Warming
Impact
Pollution
Confronted
Economies
Global
Origins
Warming
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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.
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Lie
Human Being
Runs
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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 - from a physicist's viewpoint, entropy, meaning all of those bad things that we feel are engulfing us.
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Cities
Ideas
Order
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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 / Physicist
Cities
Framework
Generic
Principles
Provocative
Scientific Theory
Theory
Desperately
Predictive
Quest
Relying
Scientific
Statement
Underlying
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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.
Geoffrey West / Physicist
Cities
Infrastructure
Always City People
Center
Rent
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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 / Physicist
Destruction
Slums
Unhealthy
Grown
Organ
Tumor
Ultimately
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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.
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Cities
Uniqueness
Big City
One Country
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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 / Physicist
Length
Mature
Offspring
Physiology
Pulse
Rate
Size
Life History Me
Branch
Cent
Ninth
Per
Mammal
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