Novikov Consistency Principle

Famous quotes containing the words consistency and/or principle:

“People who love only once in their lives are ... shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.”
—Pythagoras (c. 572–497 B.C.)