"Einstein was neither a competent experimenter nor a high-powered mathematician. His intuition about scientific concepts was unequaled, and when logic was on his side he would stick his neck far out, even when his conclusions ran counter to the received wisdom. A reinterpretation of the photoelectric effect was his first spectacular contribution, proving that light can behave as if it consists of particles, not waves."--from Nigel Calder's introduction to Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein.
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