Selberg Quotes

#1. Physics is the most basic part of science and, of course, math. It gives you insight into everything - a foundation, I should say, to understand nature and the universe.

Fred Kavli

#2. He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#3. Joph talked idly with them, all the while silently making a list of names. He'd share that list with Princess Leia soon. Might come in handy, someday. You never knew. -

Claudia Gray

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

Atle Selberg

#5. The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

Atle Selberg

#6. Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

Bertrand Russell

#7. Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

E. Lockhart

#8. I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

Zach Johnson

#9. There is no hope for any speculation that does not look absurd at first glance.

Niels Bohr

#10. Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

T. S. Eliot