"You’ve probably seen this picture of the potential that you have to use in the Bohm–de Broglie approach to describe, by hidden variables, the double-slit experiment. You see the electron coming in and doing this crazy thing. You may think that the Himalayas are wonderful, but this potential beats them by far. Yet they never tell you where the ‘screwdriver’ is—where in that morass of valleys and peaks the electron is going to start off. It just transforms the problem that eats them, back to square one. But, in the course of it, it encumbers the landscape with a lot of decoration."
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John Wheeler, quoted in Jeremy Bernstein, Quantum Profiles (1991), John Wheeler: Retarded Learner
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