Atle Selberg Quotes

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

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• Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

  

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• A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

  

  Atle Selberg
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