It may all come down to this: Unless you're a theoretical physicist, science requires heaps of money.

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He is the Executive Director of the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute and The Institute for Strengthening the Understanding of Mathematics and Science.

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After a long career as a theoretical physicist, Geoffrey West began studying the science of urban life.

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Sadly for science, it may have misled a later generation of theoretical physicists.

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Even if you did not understand a word - and, to be fair, it was aimed at real students of science - it was hard to dislike what Jim Al-Khalili, theoretical physicist and TV presenter describes as "the undiluted geekiness of it".

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