In 1931 a pamphlet appeared in Leipzig under the title Hundert Autoren gegen Einstein, A Hundred Authors Against Einstein. The physicist Hans Reichenbach called it an astonishing accumulation of naive errors.
Einstein’s reply is often quoted: if he were wrong, a single author would have been enough to refute him. The quotation collection The Ultimate Quotable Einstein gives as its source Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, published in 1988, more than fifty years later.