# Einstein dice quote question

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**Created:** [November 18, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/einstein-dice-quote-question/518022 "2009-11-18T13:21:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/einstein-dice-quote-question/518022/1 "2009-11-18T13:21:31Z")

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I have always heard that Albert Einstein’s famous quote, _God does not play at dice_ was in answer to Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. Or was it directed at Max Planck?

Trying to fashion some Einstein trivia questions, here is what I am trying to verify:  
Einstein’s famous quote “God does not play at dice.” was supposed to be directed at this principle?  
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/einstein-dice-quote-question/518022/2 "2009-11-18T13:33:06Z")

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I don’t have the time to do justice, but can only cite the earliest version of the quote–a letter from Einstein to Max Born, 4 Dec. 1926.

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> Quantum mechanics is very worthy of regard. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the right track. The theory yields much, but it hardly brings us closer to the Old One’s secrets. I, in any case, am convinced that _He_ does not play dice.