Quotes About Significance

If you go back sixty-four generations, to the time of the Romans, the number of people on whose cooperative efforts your eventual existence depends has risen to approximately one million trillion, which is several thousand times the total number of people who have ever lived!.

As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

Although Penzias and Wilson had not been looking for cosmic background radiation, didn't know what it was when they had found it, and hadn't described or interpreted its character in any paper, they received the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. The Princeton researchers got only sympathy. According to Dennis Overbye in Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, neither Penzias nor Wilson altogether understood the significance of what they had found until they read about it in the New York Times.

Put in the crudest terms, Australia was slightly more important to us in 1997 than bananas, but not nearly as important as ice cream.

If you could fly backwards into the past at the rate of one year per second, it would take you about half an hour to reach the time of Christ, and a little over three weeks to get back to the beginnings of human life. But it would take you twenty years to reach the dawn of the Cambrian period.

His point, of course, is that it is easy to make any banal situation seem extraordinary if you treat it as fateful. So

remote in time from us the Cambrian outburst was. If you could fly backwards into the past at the rate of one year per second, it would take you about half an hour to reach the time of Christ, and a little over three weeks to get back to the beginnings of human life. But it would take you twenty years to reach the dawn of the Cambrian period. It was, in other words, an extremely long time ago and the world was a very different

significance), 600,000 known archaeological sites (and more being found every day; more being lost, too), 3,500 historic cemeteries, 70,000 war memorials, 4,000 sites of special scientific interest, 18,500 medieval churches, and 2,500 museums containing 170 million objects. Having such a fund of richness means that it can sometimes be taken for granted to a shocking degree, but

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything – It is relative size that matters, a point that is often overlooked.

If it was his goal in life to make as little impression as possible upon history, he achieved it gloriously.

It was interesting, I thought, that the memorial to Tip was grander than the memorial to the men who took part in the dam-busters raids, but then I remembered that this was England and Tip was a dog.

Saint Sulpice had only been granted protective status as a national treasure in 1994. But it was now officially a monument, in the fullest sense of the word: It marked a place where something happened which now was gone.

Our life now means something and counts for things that are good.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, but to be loved by the one you love is everything

I'M SIGNIFICANT!!! ... Say's the dust speck.

Even if lives did hang in the balance, it would depend on whose they were.

My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist's statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.

When you look into infinity, you realize there are more important things than what people do all day.

Your (true) significance may remain forever obscure (a mystery) to you, but rest assured that you are fulfilling your purpose if you commit yourself to the highest advantage of others.

Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.

that the closed mem6 signified 600 years. But the time was foretold clearly, while the manner was figurative.

Consequences must outweigh probabilities

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.