If i may interject my opinion of this, i think it's a matter of observation vs. creating natural laws.

Einstein, as well as all other great scientists of the past were observationalists. they wanted to understand the world that they were observing.

the modern scientists seem to be philosophers who want to create natural laws. Quantum physics is, from what i've seen (as well as much other modern science) simply trying to use math to justify someone's beliefs. when the math doesn't work, they create new math. when the beliefs get weird, they change those.

for instance, with the new hadron collider, for fear that they might create black holes, many scientists have abandoned string theory (without announcing it) in order to make the math work, so that black holes won't appear. as if changing the paper we do our math on, will change the universe we live in.