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

— Geoffrey West

1990s
Source: George Johnson. " Of Mice and Elephants: A Matter of Scale http://hep.ucsb.edu/courses/ph6b_99/0111299sci-scaling.html," in: hep.ucsb.edu. Jan. 12, 1999.

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