#importance

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. ↗

— David Hilbert

#importance #measure #number #publications #rendered

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way. ↗

— Mary Austin

#importance #men #other #see #seeing

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount. ↗

— Lara St. John

#children #ears #eyes #family #i

Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#being #captured #closer #concept #contact

Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade. ↗

— Terry Branstad

#breaking #down #importance #increasing #international

Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how 'important' they are. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#self-centered #self-importance #business

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#jack #oscar-wilde #the-importance-of-being-earnest #change

. . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it's white, and looking at it, instead of saying "Oh that's nice blossom" ... last week looking at it through the window when I'm writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter. But the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous, and if people could see that, you know. There's no way of telling you; you have to experience it, but the glory of it, if you like, the comfort of it, the reassurance ... not that I'm interested in reassuring people - bugger that. The fact is, if you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#celebrate #comfort #death #importance #now

How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous pudding. "The Ministry's providing a couple of cars," said Mr. Weasley. Everyone looked up at him. "Why?" said Percy curiously. "It's because of you, Perce," said George seriously. "And there'll be little flags on the hoods, with HB on them-" "-for Humongous Bighead," said Fred. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humor #percy-weasley #self-importance #teasing #family

Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened. ↗

— D.J. MacHale

#importance #trouble #death