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Scientists and artists tend to develop specialized vocabulary that makes them hard to understand by outsiders. Most groups do, including lawyers, sportcasters, and every religious group:Some scientists or artists are more successful than others. Most of what any group produces will be forgotten shortly.

Scientists and artists usually depend on someone else for funding. More artists are self-funded than scientists.

Good ideas and hard work are not enough. It doesn't matter how good you are if nobody knows about your work. It is important to promote your work. Some people are better promoters than others.

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--DeanMackie

Any group tries to form its identity - those things that distinguish "US" from "THEM".

This can be done using jargon (like buzzworkds & acronyms), symbols (like titles & objects) and rituals (like conferences 8-) ).

And no one resists a good PR, as long as the group's name is spelled right...

--AmirRaveh

A great deal of both art and science in each generation is not very adventurous. By all accounts, most physicists spend their time working out tiny details on very established precendents. Occasinally there's an upheaval and everything chances. The same is probably true of a lot of "genre" art and music. --SteveFreeman