ex nihilo nihil fit
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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 James Russell Lowell
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 Thomas Hughes
I begin to doubt the principle ex nihilo nihil fit.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler
The old thought, well known in its scholastic formulation, ex nihilo nihil fit, in nihilum nihil potest reverti, is only another expression for the causal law as we have interpreted it above.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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 John Lord
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