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

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

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

4. "The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita." ~ Geoffrey West

5. "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

6. "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

7. "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

8. "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." ~ Geoffrey West

9. "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

10. "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

11. "It's hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company." ~ Geoffrey West

12. "Life is extraordinarily resilient. It's been around for over a billion years." ~ Geoffrey West

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

14. "A city plays the role of a great big magnet that's sucking people up." ~ Geoffrey West

15. "Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering and grouping of individuals." ~ Geoffrey West

16. "Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth." ~ Geoffrey West

17. "Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don't." ~ Geoffrey West

18. "Exciting cities stay exciting, and boring cities stay boring." ~ Geoffrey West

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