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Did Einstein Say Without Bees, Mankind Would Soon Perish?

When you think you know everything about the famous physicist...

by Jessica Lee, April 21, 2007


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Here are just a sampling of quotes that Albert Einstein never said — but corners of the internet want to believe he did:

The Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist (1879-1955) also did not predict that the moon would crash into Earth — that rumor was promo for the 2022 film "Moonfall" — and he did not once describe love as a "universal force" in a letter to his daughter.

Below, we compiled more than a dozen fact checks about Einstein, creating a roundup of trivia about his life and scientific work.


By Jessica Lee

Jessica Lee is Snopes' Senior Assignments Editor with expertise in investigative storytelling, media literacy advocacy and digital audience engagement.

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Did Einstein Say This About Boats Being Safer at Shore?

Oct. 29, 2022

While the shore might be safer, the quote goes on, that's not what ships are built for.

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Was Einstein a Member of the NAACP?

Feb. 8, 2022

The renowned scientist supported the civil rights movement.

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Did Einstein Say the Universe and Stupidity Are Infinite?

April 7, 2022

Quotations attributed to Einstein — rightly and wrongly — are in seemingly infinite supply.

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Attributed to Albert Einstein: 'The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.'

Did Einstein Say 'The Only Thing More Dangerous than Ignorance Is Arrogance'?

Dec. 29, 2022

One can't help but wonder what the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, who died in 1955, would say ab ...

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Did Einstein's First Wife Co-Author His Work Without Credit?

Feb. 13, 2022

The Nobel Prize winner may have had some support in the early years of his career.

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Did Albert Einstein Say World War IV Will be Fought 'With Sticks and Stones'?

April 16, 2018

A quote appears to paraphrase remarks made by the famed physicist — but he wasn't the first to w ...

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Did Einstein Say He Believed in the Pantheistic God of Baruch Spinoza?

Dec. 3, 2020

Einstein wasn’t afraid to question religion as critically as he did scientific theory.

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Did Einstein Warn the Moon Could Crash into Earth?

Nov. 11, 2021

Einstein's "prediction" is coming to theaters in 2022.

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Did Albert Einstein play the electric guitar, or is this picture a fake?

Does Pic Show Albert Einstein Playing an Electric Guitar?

Oct. 6, 2015

Digital editing strikes again.

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Is This a Real Albert Einstein Rejection Letter?

May 20, 2016

Even the best of us see our efforts rejected for not being good enough sometimes, this wants to say.

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Did Albert Einstein Humiliate an Atheist Professor?

June 29, 2004

One of the most troubling conundrums is the question of how evil and suffering can survive in a ...

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Did Einstein Say He Feared Technology Would Create a 'Generation of Idiots'?

March 6, 2017

More than one cautionary statement about the dangers technology may pose to humanity has been fa ...

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Einstein Bicycles as A-Bomb Explodes?

July 9, 2016

An altered image purports to show Albert Einstein racing away from an atomic bomb explosion on a ...

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Did Albert Einstein Say 'We Are Slowed-Down Sound and Light Waves'?

June 5, 2019

Einstein, who died in 1955, would probably be chagrined to read the many fake quotes attributed ...

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Einstein Was Right: Gravitational Waves Exist

Feb. 11, 2016

Major news from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) was broken by a cake.

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Albert Einstein Switches Places with His Chauffeur

April 11, 2004

"Why, this is so simple even my driver could explain it to you."

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Albert Einstein, Civil Rights Activist

June 24, 2013

Rumor: Albert Einstein once said that segregation was a 'disease of white people.'

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A Universal Force

April 28, 2015

Albert Einstein did not describe love as a "universal force" in a letter to his daughter Lieserl ...

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Did Albert Einstein predict that if something eliminated bees from our planet, mankind would perish within 4 years?

Did Einstein Say Without Bees, Mankind Would Soon Perish?

April 21, 2007

The purported quote reads, "If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would ...

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