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The essential physical significance of the law of motion is therefore simply that all ‘interactions’ are manifestations of EPR-entanglement and nothing but EPR-entanglement. What might seem a mere change of terminology here is actually a radical shift of physical viewpoint, comparable to the abandonment of gravitational ‘force’ in general relativity.

— Antony Valentini (1996)



[There] seems to be a ‘conspiracy’ between relativity and quantum theory, whereby uncertainty noise prevents one from using subquantum nonlocality for practical signalling. Why should the nonlocality be hidden in this way? A physics whose coherence rests on such a peculiar conspiracy can hardly be regarded as fundamental.

— Antony Valentini (1996)



[W]e are simply using the wrong variables ….

— Antony Valentini (1996)



It seems premature to embark on a study of the Universe conceived as a single quantum-mechanical entity when, even in the restricted realm of mechanical phenomena, quantum mechanics does not provide a universal description.

— Peter Holland (1995)



Standardly, we are cautioned not to inquire further. Physics stops here.

Arthur Fine (1996)



Perhaps the most venerable of all the philosophical definitions holds that the world is deterministic just in case every event has a cause.

John Earman (1986)



[W]e do think it very likely that if the ultimate theory is a quantum theory it will in fact be a Bohmian theory.

— Detlef Dürr (1995)



We are often told … that no physical theory describing well-defined objects … can account for [quantum] phenomena. The great majority of physicists continue to subscribe to this view, despite the fact that just such a deterministic theory, accounting for all of the phenomena of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, was proposed by David Bohm more than four decades ago….

James Cushing (1995)



[W]hile space measurements and time measurements when taken separately are relative, space-time measurements are absolute. The space-time position of events and the space-time interval between them are the same for all observers and never change.

William Craig (2001)