Indeed, I have found that it is usually in unimportant…

When I'm on the field, family-wise, family matters, whatever off-the-field issues, I'm not worried about.

— Jason Pierre-Paul

Someone who angsts about the littlest things, the most unlikely possibilities, and how spasses out about the most ridiculously unimportant matters.

— Anonymous

You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.

— Neil Gaiman

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

— Oscar Wilde

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for…

— Alexis Carrel

The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are spontaneous and ordered -- this…

— Maria Montessori

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

“The person who can learn by observation can create his own culture.”

— Santosh Kalwar

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

— Robert Delaunay

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can…

— Allen W. Wood

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but…

— Florence Nightingale

Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

— Arthur Eddington

We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to…

— John Randolph of Roanoke

The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his…

— Andrew Dickson White