DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2025.102500

Albert Einstein is considered one of the most brilliant scientists and scholars of the 20th century. He had a fascinating and difficult life. As you learn more about him, you see his struggles and through them, you see his wit and wisdom overcoming the criticism that was leveled at him. Take the quote noted above, or a cheekier retort, “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” What really garnered my attention was the way he responded when his work was challenged. Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Germany and is well known for his theory of relativity (Kaku, 2025). However, during the early 1930s Einstein’s work was targeted, specifically in the 1931 publication One Hundred Authors Against Einstein (Kaku, 2025). When Einstein was asked about this publication, his wit and wisdom was ever present. He said, “that to defeat relativity one did not need the word of 100 scientists, just one fact” (Kaku, 2025).