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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

My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.

— Jack Edmonds

“The popular view that scientists proceed inexorably from well-established fact to well-established fact, never being influenced by any unproved conjecture, is quite mistaken. Provided…

— Andrew Hodges

The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number…

— Matthew Fontaine Maury

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain…

— Isaac Newton

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

— Richard Dedekind

You should not put too much trust in any unproved conjecture, even if it has been propounded by a great authority, even if it…

— George Polya

“God is a conjecture; but I desire that your conjectures should be limited by what is thinkable. Can you think a god? [...] You…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What we have, in fact, is not a theory at all but a large collection of approximate calculations, together with a web of conjectures…

— Lee Smolin

“But you can't prove God exists. And isn't that what all science is ultimately about? Proving theories about the universe?" "Provability is not truth,…

— Anna Jarzab

You can't prove any hypothesis, you can only improve or disprove it.

— Christopher Monckton

“We can't prove anything in science. But the best that scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they…

— Richard Dawkins