5 Quotes by J. W. N. Sullivan

  • Author J. W. N. Sullivan
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    It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring.

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    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 greatest of God’s gifts, is almost to reach a mystical solution of the problem of evil.

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

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

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    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 his own caprice; he is not thereby discovering the fundamental principles of the universe nor becoming acquainted with the ideas of God.

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