&gt; &quot;<i>And why does everyone think that without Einstein we would somehow enter a 100 year long dark age?</i>&quot;<p>He said &quot;without Einstein&#x27;s <i>theories</i>&quot;. Physics would probably have progressed about the same, albeit set back by a bit without the man himself, but all those technologies would still have been dependent on <i>someone</i> doing what Einstein did.