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i just want to point out that einstein wasn't 'arrogant' here. he said what he did because he 'knew' GR had to be right -- it was just the generalization of special relativity, which was already known to be right.

of course, it turns out that GR is wrong, at least at small-scales. while special relativity is compatible with quantum field theory (indeed, SR was the motivation for moving from quantum mechanics to QFT, as quantum mechanics does not respect SR), general relativity is not.