Novikov Consistency Principle

Famous quotes containing the words consistency and/or principle:

“The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)