“If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.”
Stephen Jay Gould book Ever Since Darwin
"The Reverent Thomas' Dirty Little Planet", p. 141
Ever Since Darwin (1977)
“Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.”
As quoted in Bernard Shaw : The Lure of Fantasy (1991) by Michael Holroyd
1940s and later
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