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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Another of those small changes that reverses the meaning of a phrase.
It might be more true to say that nature adores a vacuum. It sees it as a challenge. Create a space of any kind, and before long something will attempt to …
www.thefreelibrary.com/JONATHAN+CAINER.-a0221460440
Not a problem – it’s a natural extension of the principle that nature adores a vacuum. Quote: Space is a natural resource.
forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=506243
“If there is an available food source, nature adores a vacuum and they’ll be in there, feeding upon them,†McCosker said.
www.wbur.org/2010/08/16/tracking-sharks
The Condé Nast traveler book of unforgettable journeys….
Klara Glowczewska – 2007 – Travel – 416 pages
Nature adores a vacuum here. And the ground itself is like nothing so much as a geologist’s textbook, a pockmarked mass of volcanic craters and hissing …
books.google.com/books?isbn=0143112619
... then its really not a big deal for me to say that the inside of malkins head is proof that nature adores a vacuum is it?
www.dailykos.com/story/2006/9/19/224856/797
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Matter rushes in where the vacuous fear to tread. I love this one; particularly the way that the opposite conceptions (hating vs. loving the emptiness) result in the same thing: not leaving it to its solitary misery.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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