RE: [Paddlewise] Foolish Consistency

From: Chuck Holst <cholst_at_bitstream.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:05:26 -0500
>>
To those who believe there is only one right way I will quote Aldous 
Huxley:
"Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds". (I think it was Aldous--or
maybe it was a physicist said it, or maybe a conversation Huxley had with a
physicist, or was it a mathematician--hate this getting older).
>>

This was one of my ex-wife's favorite quotations when I caught her in an 
inconsistency, but in fact, I think the full quotation is "A *foolish* 
consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds," and that the author was 
someone who lived before Huxley, though I can't remember who.

Chuck Holst


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