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”It is well known that the formal rules which are used in quantum theory for calculating observable quantities (such as the energy of the hydrogen atom) may be seriously criticized on the grounds that they contain, as an essential element, relationships between quantities that are apparently unobservable in principle (such as position, period of revolution of the electron etc.); that these rules lack an evident physical foundation, unless one still retains the hope that the hitherto unobservable quantities may perhaps later become accesible to experimental determination...” ”...Instead it seems more reasonable to try to establish a theoretical quantum mechanics, analogous to classical mechanics, but in which only relations between observable quantities occur.” Werner Heisenberg, Z.Phys. 33, 879 (1925)

The birth of wave mechanics Ann. d. Physik 79, 301 (1926) Erwin Schrödinger

”It is well known that the formal rules which are used in<br />

quantum theory for calculating observable quantities (such as<br />

the energy of the hydrogen atom) may be seriously criticized<br />

on the grounds that they contain, as an essential element,<br />

relationships between quantities that are apparently<br />

unobservable in principle (such as position, period of<br />

revolution of the electron etc.); that these rules lack an evident<br />

physical foundation, unless one still retains the hope that the<br />

hitherto unobservable quantities may perhaps later become<br />

accesible to experimental determination...”<br />

”...Instead it seems more reasonable to try to establish<br />

a theoretical quantum mechanics, analogous to classical<br />

mechanics, but in which only relations between observable<br />

quantities occur.”<br />

Werner Heisenberg, Z.Phys. 33, 879 (1925)

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