I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon...
— Erwin Schrodinger Modern

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Expressing his strong dislike for the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics.

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Undated, likely mid-20th century

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