ex nihilo nihil fit

American  

[eks ni-hi-loh ni-hil fit, eks nahy-hi-loh nahy-hil fit, nee-hi-loh-nee-hil] / ɛks ˈnɪ hɪˌloʊ ˈnɪ hɪl ˈfɪt, ɛks ˈnaɪ hɪˌloʊ ˈnaɪ hɪl ˈfɪt, ˈni hɪˌloʊˈni hɪl /

Latin.

1. nothing is created from nothing.

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Example Sentences

From the principle ex nihilo nihil fit, he concluded that nothing could pass from non-existence to existence.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John

But this Protean nothing, capable of appearing as something, is not the absolute, eternal, unchangeable nothing that we mean when we say ex nihilo nihil fit.

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel

The Sâṅkhya holds in the strictest sense that ex nihilo nihil fit.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

I made the discovery that nothing takes longer in the saying than anything else, for, as ex nihilo nihil fit, so from one polypus nothing any number of similar ones may be produced.

From The Biglow Papers by Hughes, Thomas

I made the discovery that nothing takes longer in the saying than any thing else, for, as ex nihilo nihil fit, so from one polypus nothing any number of similar ones may be produced.

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell