Einstein's real point isn't that intuition beats logic—it's that we've reversed their proper roles by making the rational mind our master and intuition our servant. He's describing a crisis of modern thinking: we demand proof before we allow ourselves to sense what matters, when actually the best discoveries (his own included) began as felt hunches that reason then validated. A surgeon who trusts her gut feeling that something's wrong with a patient, then investigates methodically to understand why, embodies this balance—her intuition asks the right questions, and her training answers them. When we flip the hierarchy and insist on rationality first, we lose the creative whisper that knows something before we can explain it.