Why do we find Bohr obscure?

Catherine Chevalley

pp. 59-73

in: Daniel Greenberger, Anton Zeilinger (eds), Epistemological and experimental perspectives on quantum physics, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

My contribution will focus on only one question, which I would like to state in the simplest possible way. This question will be: why do we find Bohr obscure? Or, alternatively, why is there so much — and ever renewed — complaint in the literature over Bohr "being unintelligible'?