"To Einstein the collapse postulate was an even more pernicious retreat from realism than that described above: it implied that physical quantities usually have no values until they are observed, and therefore that the observer must be intrinsically involved in the physics being observed. This suggests that there might be no real world in the absence of an observer!"
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Andrew Whitaker, "John Bell and the most profound discovery of science", Physics World (December 1998)
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