ex nihilo nihil fit

[eks ni-hi-loh ni-hil fit, eks nahy-hi-loh nahy-hil fit, nee-hi-loh-nee-hil]

Latin.

1. nothing is created from nothing.

Example Sentences

This emergence of subjective feelings from physical stuff appears inconceivable and is at odds with a basic precept of physical thinking, the Ur-conservation law—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.

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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.

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Ex nihilo nihil fit, because having never known any physical product without a pre-existing physical material, we cannot, or think we cannot, imagine a creation out of nothing.

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Had there ever been nothing, there could never have been anything, for, Ex nihilo nihil fit.

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