It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought … We are required to see the universe with new eyes,… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith. — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is only in exceptional moods that we realize how wonderful are the commonest experiences of life. It seems to me sometimes that these… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering is one… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
