Einstein is a great example where his intuition served him well for most things, but not quantum mechanics. And it’s not his fault. He was worried spooky action

Einstein is a great example where his intuition served him well for most things, but not quantum mechanics. And it’s not his fault. He was worried spooky action at a distance was opening up physics to be nonlocal, which he feared would ruin scientific progress for practical reasons. Quantum mechanics is also something without experiment no one would come up with in a million years. Einstein was right to fear science anti-thetical to the enterprise. If QM were a tiny bit more nonlocal our ability to do experiments would be much more limited. His wisdom about the limits of science was correct but QM was something no wisdom at the time could foretell without experiments. Maybe you aren’t aware but there are probably 50 or more interpretations of QM by now. And it’s even worse on the string theory side. I fear we have always relied on experiments, and going even 100 years without one is cause for alarm.