yes he is still a genius cos if it weren't for his theories there wouldn't be large research projects out there trying to disprove or improve his theories and this research leads to larger and better things, also these new theories will probably have the same thing happen 2 them.

and did u know that thomas edison may have invented the light bulb but he invented one that ran on dc which would blow up all the time, nikola tesla invented one that runs on ac which is what we use all the time (sorry just some knowledge that peepz that read this might want 2 know)