Novikov Consistency Principle

Famous quotes containing the words consistency and/or principle:

    “All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.”
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    “We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)