Quotes About Consistency

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.

Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.

Science does not permit exceptions.

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

All science is static in the sense that it describes the unchanging aspects of things.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Uniformity and Evolution are one.

Science admits no exceptions; otherwise there would be no determinism in science, or rather, there would be no science.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

In order to be a better writer, one must always write.

No status change, we hold our fire.

Stability, " insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.