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

— Geoffrey West

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It’s hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.

Cities are the crucible of civilization.

The good news is cities are extraordinarily resilient. The bad news is that they are also very hard to change.

Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.

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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