nature abhors a vacuum

nature abhors a vacuum
Cf. L. natura abhorret vacuum, Nature abhors a vacuum.

1551 CRANMER Answer to Gardiner 299 Naturall reason abhorreth vacuum.

1642 T. FULLER Holy State v. ii. Queen Joan..(hating widowhood as much as Nature doth vacuum) maried James King of Majorca.

1686 R. BOYLE Free Inquiry V II. 292 The Axiom of the Schools, that Nature abhors a Vacuum.

1771 S. JOHNSON Letter 20 June (1952) I. 249 Whatever philosophy may determine of material nature, it is certainly true of intellectual nature, that it abhors a vacuum: our minds cannot be empty.

2001 Washington Times 30 Oct. A4 The White House should have expected this, of course, since the media, like nature, abhors a vacuum.


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