Sentence examples for fit from nothing from inspiring English sources

The PSR is closely related, if not fully identical, to the principle "ex nihilo, nihil fit" ("From nothing, nothing comes").

You're after a good, tight fit from the shorts, nothing baggy but nothing restrictive.

The classic formulation is ex nihilo nihil fit — nothing comes from nothing.

Underneath outlined images of the animals incorporated into heraldic crests are Latin slogans like "Velox et vindex" ("Swift and vengeful," under the bullfrog) or "Ex nihilo nihil fit" ("Nothing comes from nothing," under the North American gray squirrel).

"The majority's decision is fit for nothing," she wrote.

"The majority's decision is fit for nothing," she said.

"For us, all these initiatives are fit for nothing.

"She was fit for nothing but the scrap yard".

"The majority's decision is fit for nothing," Kagan said.

The basis of this argument is the general causal principle: "Nothing can come from nothing" [Ex nihilo, nihil fit.] In the late 17th and early 18th centuries this principle was turned against the Epicurean atheism of thinkers such as Lucretius and Hobbes.

"I used to enjoy the challenge of building things up from nothing," he said, but it gave him fits.