May 24, 2026

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein said this during a period when he was defending his general theory of relativity against fierce academic skepticism. Many physicists rejected his work outright, and the professional pressure to retreat was real. He kept going anyway, not because he was certain he was right, but because he believed the attempt itself had value. That belief — that trying something uncertain is better than staying safe and quiet — is exactly what courage looks like in ordinary life.