There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science. Carl Friedrich Gauss
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. David Hume
There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. Norman Mailer
The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance. Henry Taylor
Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth. Peter Stuyvesant
I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart. Leon Jouhaux