Axioms Quote by Thomas Browne

“Natura nihil agit frustra, [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputed Axiome in Philosophy.”

— Thomas Browne

There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is…

— Thomas Merton

Nature has made nothing in vain.

— Delarivier Manley

That is the most extreme form of nihilism: nothingness (the "meaningless") eternally!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

— Anna Julia Cooper

What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it!

— Emile M. Cioran

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

— Maimonides

Nature does nothing in vain.

— Aristotle

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

— Aristotle

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

— Joseph Addison

There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy: nothing-buttery, for example, always part of the minor symptomatology of the bogus.

— Peter Medawar

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

— Victor Hugo