Depends on the ideas and their application. My bother retired from Los Alamos after 30 years, learned a new branch of science, and is doing pioneering work combining two branches of science that may completely change the nature of computing as well as our definitions of consciousness. Gets pretty well paid for his research.I wonder what the jab market is for physicists who think up their own theories and laws? My last job, I kept trying to think up my own rules and theories, but Waffle House was having none of that. ::