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

The coarseness and pedantry of the Averroistic freethinkers, whose scepticism lacked the elegance and sprightliness of the French, and their bastard language—mongrel of Greek and Arabic—revolted the humanists also: “Nihil96 indoctius, nihil insulsius, frigidius.”

From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford