Point being, Einstein spent a large part of his career completely unable to deal with the sheer weirdness of quantum physics. ("God does not play dice," "spook

Point being, Einstein spent a large part of his career completely unable to deal with the sheer weirdness of quantum physics. ("God does not play dice," "spooky action at a distance," and so forth.) Ultimately he was able to adapt his worldview to include the implications of quantum theory, but until then he was most certainly not in a state where he would "never understand physics." It was a great essay, actually, just a terrible lede, as EY himself acknowledged in the comments.