Here’s a real Einstein quote:
“There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.”
So he was having his stuff gettin all jacked up waaay before the internet & cell phones, or even real good phone system at that,. An people are still doin this just at a faster rate an to a more global mass.
Pretty much. Within his lifetime he was already fed up with people trying to legitimize folk wisdom or their own views by trying to associate it with his name just because it is literally held synonymous with being intelligent.
“There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them.”