In his chapter on the fifth Solvay Conference (1927), biographer Konrad Kleinknecht writes: 'To his [Einsteins] credo "God does not play dice," Bohr countered, "but it cannot be our task to dictate to God how he should govern the world."' Einstein and Heisenberg: The Controversy Over Quantum Physics, Springer Biographies 2019.
Einstein, don't tell God what to do. || Don't tell God what to do with his dice. || You ought not to speak for what Providence can or can not do. – As described in The Physicists: A generation that changed the world (1981) by C. P. Snow, p. 84
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