Full Idea
If Nothing existed, in no way could anything come into being out of nothing.
Gist of Idea
Nothing could come out of nothing
Source
Melissus (fragments/reports [c.443 BCE], B1), quoted by (who?) - where?
Book Reference
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.48