The debate between Bohr and Schrödinger was a foretaste of future debates that Bohr would have with Einstein about how to think about the smallest constituents of reality (at the time, electrons and photons). It was a clash of two ways of thinking. As Walter Moore writes in his book Schrödinger: Life and Thought, “Schrödinger was a ‘visualizer’ and Bohr was a ‘nonvisualizer,’ one thought in terms of images and the other in terms of abstractions.”
