Einstein’s concerns had little, if anything, to do with determinism—they were about the importance of locality and a physical reality that exists independently of anyone observing it. Quantum physics, said Einstein, “avoids reality and reason.” In his view, physics had been led astray by following Bohr. Writing to Schrödinger, Einstein described Bohr as a “talmudic philosopher [who] doesn’t give a hoot for ‘reality,’ which he regards as a hobgoblin of the naive.”
