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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change

20893	Nothing comes from non-existence, or passes into it [Democritus, by Diog. Laertius]
	Full Idea: Nothing comes into being from what does not exist, nor is it destroyed into what does not exist.
	From: report of Democritus (fragments/reports [c.431 BCE], A001) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 09.44
	A reaction: [part of a concise summary of Democritus by DL] Probably an intuition about conservation laws, rather than a speculation about the Big Bang.