new good stuffs most likely emerges from an environment of free weirdos freely trying and failing, not from aseptic elite high-culture environment.

Great scientists was brokehead devoted weirdos, curious and indipendent, not like the burocrats-scientists that today do academic "research" .

If you understand and admire science, you cant be an academic-scientist, you want to be a weirdo brokehead (at least at the mainstream eyes of bureacracy).