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.
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    The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
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