If you enter "Albert Einstein speech at the 1930 radio exhibition" on YouTube, you will see a video in which the world-famous physicist opens the exhibition and greets the audience with "Dear present and absent", which is still recommended today. The highlight of the approximately three-minute speech is Einstein's admonition, "Let all those be ashamed who make use of the progress of science and technology and have no more intellectual grasp of it than a cow has of the botany of plants."
If you don't close your eyes to the scientific incomprehension that jumps out at you when people try to talk about sustainability or vaccinations in public - on TV talk shows, for example - you have to say that most people are no better than consuming cows, except that they don't eat plants but stare at their cell phones without showing the slightest interest in the technological wonder in their hands.
Einstein would have scolded them, which may sound surprising coming from a man who is seen as a lovable human being. But stop! Didn't Einstein stick his tongue out at people and didn't some things in his life happen quite differently from what people say? Rumor has it that Einstein was a bad student. But the opposite is true. He always had the best grades, except that they were fives and sixes because he attended grammar school in Switzerland. And don't you think Einstein was a flawless pacifist, only to deliberately overlook the fact that it was he who suggested to the American president that he build a nuclear weapon to drop on Germany?
There are many other oddities about Einstein that do not, of course, scratch the monument that his theory has earned him. But anyone who takes a closer look at the paper in which he presents his famous formula E=mc2, for example, will notice that he does not derive it, but suddenly pulls it out of the cylinder like a rabbit. As I said, "all those who make use of the progress of science and technology and have no more intellectual grasp of it than a cow has of the botany of plants should be ashamed of themselves." With Einstein, it pays to be more than a consuming cow and to become a thinking person.
