How Einstein Learned Physics

Einstein's talent, it would seem, latent his ability to defend what he thought were the most reasonable ideas. This skill of overturning common sense with other intuitions may have also been behind his inability to accept quantum mechanics. His research on the quantization of light, for instance, had been first discovered by Max Planck. However, Einstein saw the quantization as being a physical reality, photons, rather than just a mathematical contrivance. The same rebelliousness would be essential in revolutionizing physics.