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)

    “There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)