“One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.”
David Hilbert
“When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.”
Albert Einstein
“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”
Bible
“Judicious omission is preferable to correct superfluity”
Walter Kidde
“Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.”
William Shakespeare
“Superfluous branches We lop away that bearing boughs may live”
“The superfluous is very necessary”
Voltaire
