Einstein himself said that "it is better to believe in a higher power then to stand before Him in the end and to have not believed." A brilliant man still understood he knew nothing. Though he didn't boast in God, he did not boast in himself. In 1 Corinthians, Paul explains just that in his letter to the church in Corinth. As you can read below, Paul states that God will discard our most brilliant ideas and show them to be useless nonsense. Though His way is different from what we want, those who are drawn to Him will believe and find the power that His might power brings.
Paul also says that the the the weakest, most "foolish" things that God could do is still better than the strongest, wisest thing that a human could do. Because of this, He will take the weakest, poorest individuals to show His mighty power to the world so that the world may know that He is King and reigns over all the Earth. Therefore, we should not boast of our might, or our intelligence. We should rather boast in the Lord our God in His might. Go out to others as individuals who are tools to God and the Holy Spirit. When God places His loving burden on their and our hearts, that is when they and we will follow the one true God, not before. We can lead a horse to water, but we cannot make him drink!
To know you know nothing is freedom!
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18 I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to those who are on the road to destruction. But we who are being saved recognize this message as the very power of God. 19 As the Scriptures say, "I will destroy human wisdom and discard their most brilliant ideas." 20 So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made them all look foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense. 21 Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never find him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save all who believe. 22 God's way seems foolish to the Jews because they want a sign from heaven to prove it is true. And it is foolish to the Greeks because they believe only what agrees with their own wisdom. 23 So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended, and the Gentiles say it's all nonsense. 24 But to those called by God to salvation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the mighty power of God and the wonderful wisdom of God. 25 This "foolish" plan of God is far wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God's weakness is far stronger than the greatest of human strength. 26 Remember, dear brothers and sisters, that few of you were wise in the world's eyes, or powerful, or wealthy when God called you. 27 Instead, God deliberately chose things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise. And he chose those who are powerless to shame those who are powerful. 28 God chose things despised by the world, things counted as nothing at all, and used them to bring to nothing what the world considers important, 29 so that no one can ever boast in the presence of God. 30 God alone made it possible for you to be in Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made Christ to be wisdom itself. He is the one who made us acceptable to God. He made us pure and holy, and he gave himself to purchase our freedom. 31 As the Scriptures say, "The person who wishes to boast should boast only of what the Lord has done." 1 Dear brothers and sisters, when I first came to you I didn't use lofty words and brilliant ideas to tell you God's message. 2 For I decided to concentrate only on Jesus Christ and his death on the cross. 3 I came to you in weakness -- timid and trembling. 4 And my message and my preaching were very plain. I did not use wise and persuasive speeches, but the Holy Spirit was powerful among you. 5 I did this so that you might trust the power of God rather than human wisdom. (1 Corinthians 1:18-31 & 1 Corinthians 2: 1-5, NLT)
