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90 CHAPTER 20. MAX BORN: I DID IT!
• It is necessary to bf drop completely the physical pictures of Schrödinger
which aim at a revitalization of classical continuum theory, to retain
only the formalism and to fill that with a new physical content.
20.6 Einstein to Born
The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-1955 [4] collects the life-long correspondence
between Born and Einstein with comments by Born. Einstein writes to Born:
• Your concept is completely untenable. I do not want to take part in any
further discussion, as you seem to envisage
• We have become Antipodean in our scientific expectations. You believe
in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world
which objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am
trying to capture.
• Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make
me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware
that your younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility
(1944).
• I was very pleased to hear that you have been awarded the Nobel Prize,
although strangely belatedly, for your fundamental contributions to the
present quantum theory. In particular, of course, it was your subsequent
statistical interpretation of the description which has decisively clarified
our thinking (1954).