nihil
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He once wrote, “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.”
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2016
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.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 1, 2014
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum: Of the dead say nothing unless it is kind.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2012
Attracted by her plan for saving scarce land and even scarcer money, the city sounded out the Vatican, received an immediate nihil obstat.
From Time Magazine Archive
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For him nihil or nothing meant neither matter nor form, that is, neither the material substance nor the energy which is contained in it.
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh
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