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)

“The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)