Nothing comes from nothing

Nothing comes from nothing (Latin: ex nihilo nihil fit) is a philosophical expression of a thesis first argued by Parmenides. It is associated with ancient Greek cosmology, such as is presented not just in the works of Homer and Hesiod, but also in virtually every internal system—there is no break in-between a world that did not exist and one that did, since it could not be created ex nihilo in the first place.τί δ᾽ ἄν μιν καὶ χρέος ὦρσεν ὕστερον ἢ πρόσθεν, τοῦ μηδενὸς ἀρξάμενον, φῦν; οὕτως ἢ πάμπαν πελέναι χρεών ἐστιν ἢ οὐχί. Yet why would it be created later rather than sooner, if it came from nothing; so, it must either be created altogether or not .But by observing Nature and her laws. And this will layThe warp out for us—her first principle: that nothing's broughtForth by any supernatural power out of naught.For certainly all men are in the clutches of a dread—Beholding many things take place in heaven overheadOr here on earth whose causes they can't fathom, they assignThe explanation for these happenings to powers divine.Nothing can be made from nothing—once we see that's so,Already we are on the way to what we want to know.For if things were created out of nothing, any breedCould be born from any other; nothing would require a seed.People could pop out of the sea, the scaly tribes ariseOut of the earth, and winged birds could hatch right from the skies.Born willy-nilly, every animal, both wild and tame,Would inhabit cultivated land and wilderness the same.The same tree would not always grow the same fruit—what might bearAn apple one time, might, the next, produce a quince or pear.Since there would be no generating particles, then neitherWould certain things arise from only a certain kind of mother.But since in fact each species rises from specific seeds,Each thing springs from the source that has the matter that it needs,The primary particles, and comes into the boundariesOf light, and that's the reason every thing cannot give riseTo every other thing, because there is a separate powerIn distinct things. Nothing comes from nothing (Latin: ex nihilo nihil fit) is a philosophical expression of a thesis first argued by Parmenides. It is associated with ancient Greek cosmology, such as is presented not just in the works of Homer and Hesiod, but also in virtually every internal system—there is no break in-between a world that did not exist and one that did, since it could not be created ex nihilo in the first place. The idea that 'nothing comes from nothing', as articulated by Parmenides, first appears in Aristotle's 'Physics: The above, in a translation based on the John Burnet translation, appears as follows: The Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius expressed this principle in his first book of De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)