The refutation of Einstein’s criticism does not add any new element to the conception of complementarity, but it is of great importance in laying bare a very deep-lying opposition between Bohr’s general philosophical attitude and the still widespread habits of thought belonging to a glorious but irrevocably bygone age in the evolution of science.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The refutation of Einstein’s criticism does not add any new element to the conception of complementarity, but it is of great importance in laying bare a very deep-lying opposition between Bohr’s general philosophical attitude and the still widespread habits of thought belonging to a glorious but irrevocably bygone age in the evolution of science." in the context of "Léon Rosenfeld, "Niels Bohr in the thirties. Consolidation and extension of the conception of complementarity". In S. Rozental (Ed.), Niels Bohr: His life and work as seen by his friends and colleagues (1967)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.