Importance Quote by Alfred North Whitehead

Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

— Jean Cocteau

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

— Phil Crosby

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

— Christopher Columbus

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

— Mary Parker Follett

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

— Henri Poincare

To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none.

— Leo Tolstoy

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

— Ali Smith

Whatever has been discovered has to be put to use - otherwise, what is the use of the discovery?

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

What was said before is not important.

— Ahmed Chalabi

To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.

— Pina Bausch