"Due to the lucidity and apparently incontestable character of the argument, the paper of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen created a stir among physicists and has played a large role in general philosophical discussion. Certainly the issue is of a very subtle character and suited to emphasize how far, in quantum theory, we are beyond the reach of pictorial visualization."
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Niels Bohr, "Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics", published in Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist (1949)
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