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 un…

- J. W. N. Sullivan

... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness

- J. W. N. Sullivan

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases.

- J. W. N. Sullivan

If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked r…

- J. W. N. Sullivan

The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith.

- J. W. N. Sullivan

It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring

- J. W. N. Sullivan

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 of the gr…

- J. W. N. Sullivan

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a matter for …

- J. W. N. Sullivan

We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought … We are required to see the universe with new eyes, and it is because it makes s…

- J. W. N. Sullivan