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)

“All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)