"Against all the retrogressive endeavors I am sure that the statistical character of the ψ-function and hence of nature’s laws – on which you insisted from the very beginning against Schrödinger’s resistance – will define the style of the laws at least for some centuries. It may be that later, e.g. in connection with the living processes, one will find something entirely new, but to dream of a way back, back to the classical style of Newton-Maxwell seems to me hopeless, digressive, bad taste. And, we could add, it is not even a beautiful dream."
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