"Einstein's thinking is always on the ontological level traditional in physics; trying to describe the realities of Nature. Bohr's thinking is always on the epistemological level, describing not reality but only our information about reality."

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Albert EinsteinDebatesQuantum mechanicsPhilosophy of scienceHistory of science
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E. T. Jaynes, "Probability in Quantum Theory", in Wojciech H. Zurek (ed.), Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information (1990)